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RAMALLAH: The only certainty about the death of Hamas leader Mohiyedine Sharif is that his followers will wreak an ugly vengeance on Israeli civilians, says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. Sharif was found dead after a bomb explosion this weekend, but an autopsy discovered that he'd been killed earlier by bullet wounds. "Hamas is accusing Israel and the Palestinian Authority; the Palestinian Authority is blaming Israel; Israel is blaming Palestinians," says Hamad...
That noble rock had seemed like such a civilized destroyer. Your average catastrophe gives little warning. Tidal waves, volcanoes, earthquakes and their ilk just barge in unannounced and wreak havoc. So rude! Not 1997 XF11, as the scientists so imaginatively named our space Kevorkian. It made a reservation. We were provided the exact date of arrival: Oct. 26, 2028. A Thursday. Gives you time to clear some space on your calendar, pencil in the appointment. Note to Self: Thursday--run amuck in sheer terror before being blown to smithereens along with everyone and everything I've ever known and loved...
While biological and chemical arms can potentially wreak havoc on civilian populations, they're considered inefficient, especially when delivered by Saddam Hussein's favorite transport, the Scud. "The Scud is an inaccurate weapon and the wind has to be just right," says Thompson. Still, Israel is taking notice. Statements by the chief U.N. weapons inspector that Iraq has enough biological or chemical arms to "blow away Tel Aviv" has elicited Pentagon-like tough talk from Israeli officials. "Surely Iraq must know that it will not pay to attack Israel," government spokesman David Bar-Ilan told Reuters. Israelis are being told...
...novel opens starkly--"They shoot the white girl first"--and then coils back and forth through a century of imagined history to explain who "they" are and why, on a dewy Oklahoma morning in 1976, they felt compelled to storm a decaying mansion and wreak violence on the handful of women living within...
...Kate's logic, Millie will get some good lovin' before she dies, at which point she and Merton (I swear that's his name) can set up house. Who loses? So the three of them become a sort of family for one another, until sexual tensions and power plays wreak all kinds of havoc...