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...around Rihan, a southern Lebanese village. The entrance to another no-go zone, along a rutted dirt track, is advertised by a sign that reads: WARNING. ACCESS TO THIS AREA IS FORBIDDEN. HIZBALLAH. Less than a mile to the south, the Litani River, shriveled to a creek by the summer heat, cuts through a deep, meandering gorge. The river marks the edge of Hizballah's new military territory...
...large parts of Lebanon in ruins, Hizballah is rearming. Interviews with Hizballah officials and fighters and other Lebanese close to the party show that the group's battle-hardened military wing is stockpiling weapons, digging positions and training new fighters - despite resolutions passed by the U.N. Security Council last summer calling for it to disband. What's more, the Shi'ite party appears to be preparing for battles on two fronts: against Israel and against Hizballah's sectarian rivals in Lebanon. Hizballah has begun marshaling a new reservist army of Shi'ite street fighters, which would allow Hizballah's regular...
...colleague recalls high-level meetings in which Blair would constantly glance at Campbell for his reaction. The press chief was heard to call his Prime Minister a "prat"; he "sometimes made Blair look subservient," says Meyer. Yet Campbell was utterly devoted to Blair and even now, on a summer's day and in a new political era, springs to his master's defense on Iraq, with a trace of his old ferocity. "I don't mind people saying we made the wrong call," he says. "What I can't stand is the motive thing. 'Tony did it because Bush told...
...achievement. The year I studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, I was shocked by reaction to a lecture by a Nobel Prize-winning economist; the overflow crowd stampeded the podium afterwards, jostling for photos and autographs. When Steven Hawking appeared at Beijing's Great Hall of the People last summer, crazed fans rushed the stage. I know young women who get weak-kneed at the mention of Albert Einstein...
...Pristina, meanwhile, Agron Bajrami, editor of the daily Koha Ditore acknowledged that frustration is growing. "I don't expect any major unrest this summer, " he said. But if elections are held as expected in November, and there is still no clear movement on the question, "even the mainstream parties will be tempted to adopt extreme strategies." Then it won't just be fireworks on display...