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...older Zionists. They have grown up steeped in holy books and prophecy and see themselves as the first line of defense against the Arabs. They consider themselves divorced from the state and view the army and politicians, once their loudest cheerleaders, with distrust and suspicion. It has become a showdown of "Jews vs. Israelis," as Gorenberg puts it, and these extremists believe themselves to be the righteous Jews...
Lebanon's political crisis appears to be heading for a showdown with a call by the Hizballah-led opposition for a general strike Tuesday, intended to paralyze the country and hasten the fall of the Western-backed government...
...Hepburn women were often women apart, like the Green Mansions Bird Girl, quarantined in her aviary. Race was the improbable barrier in The Unforgiven, where she got a great tan to play Burt Lancaster's "l'il red-hide Injun," the pretty pelt in a sociological showdown...
...college basketball.Delaney-Smith, always a dead-on analytical observer of her own team, needed just four words to sum up one of Harvard’s finest wins in school history. And given the Crimson’s non-conference woes prior to its cross-town showdown with the Eagles, ‘improbable’ hit the bullseye.Harvard entered the game at 1-10, the team’s lone win coming against San Jose State, then 0-7, in a tournament game in Berkeley, Calif. The Crimson had been spanked by then-No. 16 Cal, downed by streaking...
...bigger dilemma for a coach comes when the injury is more severe than a bruise, like with the sprained ankle that Chu sustained. She missed Tuesday’s road game at UConn, an eventual 3-2 loss, and was a game-time decision for Friday’s showdown with UNH. Despite rating her health as 60-70 percent and favoring her right side throughout the contest, Chu was there to anchor the special teams and contributed an assist on the team’s second goal...