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Much remains a mystery about Fatah al-Islam, the Palestinian-led Sunni Muslim fundamentalist faction that sprang up six months ago and is at the center of Lebanon's latest fighting. What is known, however, indicates that the group, based near the northern coastal city of Tripoli, is a product of past Middle East conflict, a manifestation of present unrest in Lebanon and an ominous sign of future turmoil throughout the region...
Much remains a mystery about Fatah al-Islam, the Palestinian-led Sunni Muslim fundamentalist faction that sprang up six months ago and is at the center of Lebanon's latest fighting. What is known, however, indicates that the group based near the northern coastal city of Tripoli is a product of past Middle East conflict, a manifestation of present unrest in Lebanon and an ominous sign of future turmoil throughout the region...
...After an initial false start, the Crimson quickly sprang ahead and led the field for the rest of the 2000 meters, with a push in the last 500 that improved its lead...
...What makes this fixation all the more striking is that Brown is, in so many other ways, such a formidable figure. His more statesmanlike qualities were richly evident last week when he arrived at the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels, sprang out of his limousine and led his retinue into a conference where he argued, with urgency and conviction, for extending the chance of education to every child in the world. Brown's face is already familiar in Brussels. As Tony Blair's Chancellor of the Exchequer, he has represented the U.K. in international financial negotiations for a decade...
...helmet "was made of grey steel adorned with gold, and on it were graven runes of victory. A power was in it that guarded any who wore it from wound or death, for the sword that hewed it was broken, and the dart that smote it sprang aside." Et cetera. The book also comes with some pseudo-Blakean illustrations by Alan Lee.) But once you surrender to the richness of Tolkien's vision, the immersive detail of it, the faux-archaic diction barely registers. Children, as a short work, never achieves the towering operatic grandeur of the trilogy...