Word: redoubtable
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...teen sons to keep jackals away from the herd. The younger son, Yussef (Boubker Ait El Caid), a better shot with a more reckless disposition, tests the rifle's shooting distance by taking thoughtless aim at a bus on the road below their mountain redoubt. He fires, critically wounding one of the tourists inside. She is Susan (Cate Blanchett), on a marriage-saving vacation with her husband Richard (Pitt). Because the couple cannot be at home in San Diego with their two young children, the kids' nanny Amelia (Adriana Barraza) takes them to her home village in Mexico...
...battles. Whatever happens next in the violent and complex relations between Burma's ruling generals and its diverse ethnic groups, Colonel Yawd Serk is not expecting peace for his long-suffering Shan anytime soon. "If the Wa don't come for us," he says from his hilltop redoubt, "the Burmese will come for sure...
...Communists' postwar struggle with Chiang Kaishek, Deng joined in planning strategy for the Huai-Hai campaign, which drove Nationalist forces south of the Yangtze and helped push them off the mainland to their Taiwan redoubt. A lull in the fighting permitted him to travel briefly to Peking for the ceremony at Tiananmen Square celebrating the founding of the People's Republic on Oct. 1, 1949. Soon afterward, Deng was named political commissar of China's vast Southwest Military Administrative Region and was based in his high school city of Chongqing. For the next three years he directed the region...
Today marks the opening of the 58th Cannes Film Festival, the world's largest annual convention, art exhibit and international debating society. For 32 of those years, we have made our pilgrimage to this Riviera redoubt to hobnob with stars and directors, renew old friendships, sample the superb wines and cuisine under cloudless Cote d'Azur skies and, when there's time, see movies...
...prolonged, intense, bitter conflict" and engaged in "a ritual slaying of the elders." One wounded elder is Professor Paul Bator, a former U.S. deputy solicitor general. After 26 years at Harvard, he is moving in January to the more congenial precincts of the University of Chicago Law School, a redoubt of legal conservatism. Calling the C.L.S. movement a force for "philistinism" and "mediocrity," Bator believes that the intellectual integrity and academic excellence of Harvard are at stake. "On that," he has declared, "there is no right or left. Only right and wrong...