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...were left homeless. Says parliamentarian Saad Hariri, son of the slain former Prime Minister: "When it starts raining and getting cold, people will realize what a huge mistake it was for Hizballah to start this war." What's more, the olive groves and hills of southern Lebanon are sown with more than 1 million bomblets from Israeli cluster bombs, say U.N. experts, making it hazardous if not lethal to wander into these areas...
...Although the current scramble for Asian clients is driven by the region's growing wealth, the seeds of the boom were sown not by prosperity but by adversity. In the past, Asians have tended to manage their money without professional help, and to stash a lot of it conservatively in cash, savings deposits and real estate. "The Asian rich have had a high propensity to hold cash," says Scott of BCG. "That was why private banking didn't take off for a long time in Asia." But several economic shocks?including the tech-stock crash of 2000 and the 9/11...
...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...