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...order came over the radio: the last Israeli soldiers on 6,450-ft. Mount Baruk and along the once fortified slopes of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley were to mount their tanks and armored personnel carriers and head south. There came a shout: "To the trucks!" A whoop rose from the troops, and with that the Israeli army began withdrawing from the southeast sector of Lebanon, where 8,000 Israeli soldiers had faced 30,000 Syrians since the 1982 Israeli invasion...
...closed the book, shoved it back into the Times, and let out an inner whoop...
...whoop gets larger when John Finley 25. Master of Eliot House and Eliot Professor of Greek congratulates him moments later on his marvelous reviews...
Since John Williams, 52, took over from Arthur Fiedler as conductor of the Boston Pops four years ago, the number of oldsters in the audience has diminished and the youngsters increased, but one thing has not changed: the irreverent Pops musicians whoop derisively at the more cornball program choices and read and talk through rehearsals. Last week, after one of his own works was greeted by surreptitious hisses at a run-through, Williams finally decided that enough was enough. The conductor-composer, whose most recent score was for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, will turn in his Pops...
...answers to these and other questions are nowhere to be found. But you can almost forgive Bulliet's condescension--he is, after all, a professor, who teaches Middle East history at Columbia. Moreover, he weaves such an engaging tale of espionage and international whoop-dee-do that the actual details aren't quite as important as the frantic pace and the heart-in-your-throat situations...