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...held a TIME correspondent at gunpoint until the post's commander arrived. The bearded commander, dressed in a purple shell suit and sandals, was friendlier, but taciturn. "We are guests in this country and we are here in these bases only to help liberate Palestine," he said with a smile, while refusing to give his name and answer any further questions. The fighting in north Lebanon presents the Lebanese army with its toughest challenge in decades. Analysts believe that if the Fatah al-Islam militants are soundly defeated it will greatly boost the stature of the under-equipped army...
...They still do. When she was alive, everyone wanted a piece of Diana. Photographers chased after her smile, newspapers hung on her words, her fans bought anything that would get them that little bit closer to the fairy tale. And when she died, the outpouring of grief was accompanied by the urge to spend - as if millions of mourners thought that if they could only collect enough commemorative plates, or read enough biographies, maybe together they could hold on to the woman they had lost too soon...
Ligron, 44, is the national director of Miss Universe Japan, and her job is to create world-class beauty queens out of young Japanese women in a country that favors smallness over voluptuousness, reserve over unrestrained confidence, a demure smile over a sparkling grin. A former promoter at the IMG modeling agency, Ligron was handpicked by Donald Trump (who co-owns the Miss Universe Organization with NBC) to ramp up Japan's waning interest in the pageant. "When I came in 1997, Miss Japan was run by a broadcaster, and had turned into a show by men, for men," says...
...have a beautiful imagination," beams Thelma Unite [prounounced YOO-NEE-TAY], eyes shining as a broad smile curls across her face. Even then, her presence in this swank coffee shop in Stanley, a ritzy beachside Hong Kong neighborhood marked by flashy cars and exclusive country clubs, would have been hard to envision amid the squalor and deprivation of her native village in Cagayan province, northern Philippines. But Unite, a self-taught artist and singer-songwriter, knows better than most how closely the two places are linked...
...deals with difficulties in life with remarkable optimism and poise, and almost always with smile and success,” Yu wrote...