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...Israel immediately sent tanks and soldiers a short distance into Gaza to locate the tunnel and destroy it. Though the target at Kerem Shalom had been a military one, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other officials labeled it a "terrorist" attack that demanded the sternest of responses. All Palestinian leaders would be held accountable, he declared, and no distinction would be made between military and political wings of parties such as Hamas. "Let it be clear," said Olmert, "We will reach everyone, no matter where they are, and they know...
...well have the heaviest.” Nor is he beyond lambasting his own writing. “I criticize my own sentences as I’m about to write them to make them as perfect as I possibly can. I think I’m my own sternest critic. If I can do it to myself, I’ll certainly share it with the rest of the world!”‘GLORY IN THE DARK’Yet Simon stands even more steadfastly by his proudest moments. He still remembers a fuse blowing just...
Yale has finally trumped Harvard—albeit, in an area of dubious merit. The Eli administration has finally proven that they can be even more overbearing and paranoid about drinking and parties than even the sternest Crimson authority figure. But to many, myself included, Yale’s announcements—tailgates now have to end by the start of the third quarter, drinking games and U-Haul dancing are strictly forbidden, and any student caught actually having fun will be expelled—came as little surprise. After all, Yale has been trying since its birth (the unfortunately...
...before the pills and fame took her down. But even at 25, in this genial 1948 Irving Berlin songfest with Fred Astaire, there was an eerieness to her charisma. Garland is visibly depleted, her voice often reedy, her teen sweetness now a mask. And then, by an act of sternest will, she summons the old fun, as in the numbers A Couple of Swells and I Love a Piano. The innocent girl from The Wizard of Oz is reborn, through her pain, as a depression-defying diva.. --By Richard Corliss
...might recognize it in Big Joey, who reintroduced the sternest Mafia traditions and insisted that his men honor them. Massino (who often used the alias Messina in his early days) was born in '43 and raised in Brooklyn, where he befriended Vitale and in his teens married Vitale's sister Josephine. The couple settled in Howard Beach, Queens, where they still live in a house decorated with white marble and crystal chandeliers...