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...companies as Remington, Clairol and Black & Decker. Under the duo's guidance, Marvel slowly transformed itself into a conservative but lucrative licensing business. "I always tell people that when you come out of bankruptcy, it's like chemotherapy. You may be cured of cancer, but you're still very weak," says Cuneo, now a Marvel vice chairman. "But then along came Spider...
...Lebanese Army is weak not just by neglect, but also by design, however. Like the Lebanese government, the military allocates power and position on the basis of maintaining the delicate sectarian consensus that ended decades of bloody civil war. Domestic political stability rather than military effectiveness has been the guiding principle of its development. "The Lebanese army is a mirror of all the country; its job is to maintain stability in the country," said Retired General Salim Abu Ismail, a former military attache to Washington and the managing editor of Al Defaiya Defense Magazine. "During the Civil War, every sect...
...with staunch supporters of Hizballah, whose fighters are battling Israeli forces. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's secretary-general, gave his victory speech here in May 2000 after Hizballah succeeded in driving Israeli troops out of their occupation zone in south Lebanon. Then, Nasrallah had described Israel as being as weak as a spider's web. Yet while Hizballah's anti-tank-missile-wielding guerrillas had inflicted high casualties on the attacking Israelis, the battle had left the town in ruins...
...told by other survivors as they slowly trickle out of the underground refuges and make their way toward the Lebanese Red Cross ambulances parked on the entrance of the smashed central area, waiting to take them to a hospital in the nearby town of Tibnine. Some are too weak to walk, so reporters set aside notebooks and cameras and carry them to safety using doors or blankets as stretchers...
...which she played well in 2000 when her opponent, former Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY), nearly attacked her during the pair’s first debate or when her approval soared to all-time highs across the nation post-Monica. As the country saw in the downfall of the weak-kneed Kerry and the staid Gore to the cowboy Bush, though, the way to the White House is paved in images of determination and strength, particularly in times of indefinite war. In a Gallup July 20 poll on Clinton’s “strengths and weaknesses...