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...Nasrallah is one of the Arab world's great orators, but he was almost matched at the event by Mughniyah's 18-year-old son, Jihad. Dressed in crisp camouflage uniform and forage cap, Jihad Mughniyah marched briskly onto the stage and delivered a confident and impassioned speech, pledging that "the strugglers of my father and myself are ready to continue in his footsteps." The rhetoric even had hard-nosed Hizballah security men and top rank party officials dabbing their eyes with handkerchiefs as the audience burst into applause and cheers at the end of the speech...
...were stranded in a foreign land, with little idea where you were or where you were headed, what would you do? Flirt with a stranger, of course. “Do you like Chet Baker?” the Egyptian man in a police uniform asks the lady behind the counter at the bus station. “What?” she responds, confused. “My funn-ay Val-ahn-than,” he sings as his colleagues look on incredulously. This awkward moment—the kind in which only one party realizes...
...aircraft brought food, ammunition, trucks and members of the Argentine 9th Infantry Brigade to bolster the 2,500-man invasion force. In Buenos Aires, the government made further preparations for battle. Some 80,000 Argentines who had just finished their year of compulsory military service were ordered back into uniform...
...picture of his own quixotic departure from the Falklands. He refused to shake hands with the Argentine general commanding the invaders, an attitude, his adversary said, that he found "very ungentlemanly." Retorted Hunt: "I think it very uncivilized to invade British territory. You are here illegally." Donning his ceremonial uniform and plumed hat, Hunt was then chauffeured to the Port Stanley airport in his official limousine (the same Austin model used as a London taxicab), with a small Union Jack fluttering defiantly from the hood. Said Hunt in London: "I am still Governor. We must do what...
...here.”Fast-forward to this week, as Markley and the Harvard women’s basketball team prepare for their second game of the season against Princeton, and a lot has changed. Markley has transferred from Princeton to Harvard and seems to be in a Crimson uniform for the long haul. She’s happy, and—to the benefit of the program—thriving on the court as well as off. In her first year at the college level, Markley has become an offensive sparkplug for an already fast-paced team; a career...