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...Beirut in the early '80s, I watched as the Reagan administration threw its weight behind two other Gemayels, Pierre's uncle, Bashir, and father, Amin, in a radical project to re-make Lebanon as a bastion of pro-Western liberalism, aligned with Israel and free from Syrian domination and Iranian influence. That effort failed: Bashir wound up dead; Amin went into temporary exile; U.S. credibility evaporated and Americans remaining in Beirut became kidnap targets; and Israel got mired in an 18-year military occupation. By contrast, Syrian and Iranian influence in Lebanon swelled...
...would no longer talk about 'uninsured people', but 'people with reduced health care access,'" says Jim Weill, President of the Food Research and Action Center. "It's replacing a phrase which has emotional punch for people with one that's drained of any power." Nord himself acknowledges the weight of the word. "Those who work closest with us and know firsthand what hunger is feel that this problem may be lost sight of if the USDA is not using this word to describe the condition," he says. And he pauses for a long time. "I wear a lot of hats...
...also 36. Watching him running in to bowl revives memories of an Australian practice at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the late '90s, when two speedsters at opposite ends of their careers were operating in adjacent nets. Veteran Craig McDermott was bustling in as though he had a lead weight strapped to each thigh; a flowing Brett Lee, meanwhile, might have been mistaken for an Olympic sprinter. Though as cagey as ever, McGrath these days looks a lot like McDermott did. "You always think you have more to offer," Jeff Thomson said recently on the topic of McGrath and other...
...Anderman’s performance is more skilled than Carr’s, Nat fades into extraneousness by the end of the play. She is the kind of air-headed mother who their children hate to love, but Anderman lacks the reasonable core than would have given her some weight in the story.Troy Deutsch as Jason, the teen-age driver of the car that killed the boy would have suffered similarly if the script had not shoved him into the play’s climactic moment. Jason is an amalgamation of every nerdy-sensitive teen ever...
...beginning of Fernandez’s ascent to a position of respected leadership.Soft-spoken and reserved by nature, Fernandez’s leadership style does not entail rallying his teammates with fiery speeches in the locker room or the huddle. His actions define him, and his example holds more weight than any words could.This was made evident to Murphy when the coach and his wife arrived at the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Facility for a game of tennis one Saturday afternoon. There they saw Fernandez going through offensive line drills with a group of underclassmen...