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...Lebanon and cry," said the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, and as the familiar images - pillars of smoke, innocents fleeing the fighting, tough young men toting huge guns - popped up on TV screens and newspapers around the world, so the sense that fate decrees nothing but tears for Lebanon took root once again. Not even one year after a vicious war between Israel and the militants of Hizballah, which devastated whole regions of the south and Shi'ite neighborhoods of Beirut, Lebanon seemed once more to be at the mercy of the gun. The government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora believes...
...indelible villain to give you the nightmare creeps, and a kind of hero - the kind the mass movie audience can root for, to get away with a $2 million satchel, and do it against Everest odds. Joel Coen says this is "about as close as we'll ever get to an action movie." On that count, and for most of the film, No Country delivers, with suspense scenes as taut as they are acutely observed. Moss spends most of his sorry time being chased and shot at: as he tries to ford a river pursued by a varmint posse...
...root cause of the weekend conflagration goes back two months, when Musharraf suspended Chaudhry and asked the Supreme Judicial Council, which consists of senior judges, to inquire into whether the Chief Justice had misused his office to get his son into the police force and to obtain other benefits-allegations Chaudhry denies. The Chief Justice has a reputation for incorruptibility and for defending the rights of the weak. But Chaudhry has also crossed the government repeatedly. He blocked the sale of state-owned Pakistan Steel Mills, citing irregularities in the privatization process. He launched embarrassing investigations into missing persons detained...
Poverty and lack of education were recognized early on as the root problem of these disaffected youths. Nobody understood this better than G. Stanley Hall, an American psychology pioneer who is the book's unlikely hero. In 1898, Hall defined a new stage of life called "adolescence," characterized by parental conflict, moodiness and risk taking. Contrary to the disciplinarian ethos of the day, Hall recommended that adolescents be given "room to be lazy." His prediction that "we shall one day attract the youth of the world by our unequaled liberty and opportunity," not only prophesied a culture that would revere...
...Protestantism, says Neri, takes root quickest in impoverished urban areas where the state is absent. But significant income gains among the poorest sectors of society, combined with a far-reaching government assistance program, have given hope to people who once turned to Protestant Pentecostalism for financial and social...