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...that would take at least three years and cost upward of $1 billion, according to Dr. Riad Kahwaji, the Lebanese founder of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, a think tank in Dubai. Right now, its 1960s-era American and Soviet armor is so obsolete that spare parts are no longer available. Its only air force consists of 16 very old Huey helicopters that pilots call "flying coffins"; it has no navy except for four or five patrol boats; no border sensors; no night vision goggles; and minimal special forces. "The Lebanese army needs to focus...
...humanist tract. It races and shocks like any good Mann melodrama, coiling its tension smartly, filling the screen with vivid tough guys (Howard Da Silva and Charles McGraw as a rancher and his enforcer) and gals (Lynn Whitney as McGraw's surly wife). The movie also has style to spare, especially in the pearly flashes of white amid the dark skies and darker hills. Somebody had seen Que Viva Mexico, Sergei Eisenstein's 1932 paean to peons. We'll tell you who that somebody was in a minute...
...snap decision, a well-intentioned lie calculated to spare his wife unnecessary grief, instead puts a terrible secret at the center of their life together. "He had wanted to spare her," Edwards writes in The Memory Keeper's Daughter, "to protect her from loss and pain; he had not understood that loss would follow her regardless, as persistent and life-shaping as a stream of water. Nor had he anticipated his own grief, woven with the dark threads of his past...
...Jean and the other refugees of Meheba Refugee Camp. I am begging you to take some time out of the compilation of your daily list of grievances to speak out for someone who is unable to complain for themselves. And if you have more than a moment to spare, reply to this postcard with an email, and I will tell you how you can complain even more effectively. So go ahead. Whine away. But for the love of Jean, Meheba, and the millions of refugees in the world, appreciate it and act accordingly first. Aria S. K. Laskin...
...didn't want any mix; bottled mixes tend to be mostly high-fructose corn syrup. Rather, margaritas should be tart and spare. Ideally, they should have just three or four ingredients...