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...episodes for the series' haunted soldier, who was played by Assi Dayan, the son of Defense Minister and war hero Moshe Dayan.) Like generations of Israelis, Forman grew up in a country that is besieged by hostile neighbors even as it occupies land the Palestinians consider their own. That twin feeling, of being both prisoners and police, might give anyone restless dreams. But the soldiers whose commanders did nothing to stop the 1982 massacre, while injured women fled from the camps begging the soldiers for help, are especially susceptible to long-term remorse...
...most professional guerrilla armies. Hizballah militants told TIME that the Druze fighters had fought them from dug-in positions prepared well in advance of last week's outbreak of violence between the supporters of the government and the opposition. They claimed the Druze used snipers, mortars and even twin-barreled 23mm anti-aircraft guns to blast at the advancing Hizballah...
...Magic Powder It is not only in the former Soviet Union and its satellites that the twin forces of globalization and communism's end have created criminal networks. In Africa, for example, proxy conflicts of the cold-war continent mutated into much more deadly struggles between criminally financed militias over minerals. Nowhere was this more clear than in the awful war in the Democratic Republic of Congo that broke out in 1998. In large measure, the war was driven by complex criminal conspiracies. A map of the main zones of conflict between the various armies and militias coincides with...
...soars through the night sky, disrupts military aviation, wages holy war against those twin bastions of evil, terrorists and corporate bigwigs. He's Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), zillionaire industrialist, and he arrives accompanied by the POW!, BANG! and KA-BOOM! suitable for a movie based on a comic book, but with lots more intelligence than the genre usually demands. It's Iron Man to the rescue, yanking movies and the worldwide box office out of its months-long doldrums and into the stratosphere...
...Like most nightmares, it began innocently enough: Madeleine and her younger twin siblings were left asleep in the apartment while their parents dined with friends at a nearby restaurant. When Kate McCann went to check on them, Madeleine was gone. The story quickly hit the front pages in Britain and much of Europe, and remained a top story all summer. The McCanns - both physicians - proved adept at putting together a well-publicized global campaign to help find Madeleine. They enlisted the help of pop and sports stars, and even had an audience with Pope Benedict...