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...have survived and knowing, too, that their monthlong defense of this village has turned them into legends in the eyes of Muslims and Arabs around the world. It was in the thick undergrowth south of this border village that the seeds of the war between Israel and Hizballah were sown. On July 12, a squad of Hizballah fighters slipped across the border under the cover of a rocket barrage to snatch two Israeli soldiers. For Israel, it was one provocation too many from their Shi'ite Lebanese foes, and the order was given for a massive air and ground offensive...
...Friday, July 14, six of the long-legged creatures were plopped down onto the newly sown grass of Eliot Triangle in Harvard Square, only to be carried off almost immediately by passersby...
...Croatia. "On the bus on the way back to Czechoslovakia," remembers Gupta, "we got down somewhere and went into some forest. The idea was to get to Germany. But the border guards caught us." The next year, Vaclav Havel led Czechoslovakia's revolution. But Gupta's mother had sown the seeds of escape deep in her daughter. By 15, Gupta was modeling in Prague. By 17, it was Milan. And by 19, she was sharing a models' flat in Tokyo. "It was a great experience," she says. "I was learning English and making money. And when...
...entrenched in their agencies, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the FBI. Those two organizations, which have a long history of rivalry, are battling over such issues as which agency can use the name Bomb Data Center. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has sown confusion as well by replicating some of the efforts of the ATF and the FBI. It is even duplicating its own work: at least two sections of DHS are scrambling to create bomb centers. Left out of this already complex equation are state and local bomb squads, who were...
More importantly, the seeds sown for improvement in the undergraduate experience under Summers’ presidency are indicative of his larger willingness to press for change at an institution by nature resistant...