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...Such views have little traction in the Shi'ite villages of the eastern Bekaa Valley where Toufeili lives. Local residents openly mock the stubborn cleric, accusing him of being on the payroll of Hizballah's opponents. Small wonder, then, that he rarely leaves his home, and that his bodyguard rarely leaves his side...
...Though it wasn’t our best, we stayed stubborn in the first half and didn’t let them get away,” Lin said. “With 1000 meters to go, we knew we were going to come back. And when we got back in contact, I let the guys know, and the boat just got better and better after that. We kept pushing on them, tightening the screws...
...Successive governments have proved just as stubborn. The government's heavy-handed treatment of the Tamil citizens it claims to want to liberate from L.T.T.E. tyranny has merely created more distrust and resentment. Rather than reach out to the Tamil people directly and offer them a degree of autonomy and self-governance that would undercut the Tigers' power, officials have regularly been suckered into more fighting by the rebels. As in Israel, domestic politics plays an important role. The cease-fire in 2002 was signed with a government more open to negotiation. But the election of President Mahinda Rajapakse...
Drake says the jokes get at a "larger truth" about Franken: he's got an anger issue. He once literally tackled a stubborn heckler at a Howard Dean rally after the security staff failed to eject the man. And at the 2003 White House correspondents' dinner, he greeted Karl Rove with the words "I hate you." (Franken has said they just "gibed each other a little...
...Titus Andronicus,” one of Shakespeare’s earlier plays, depicts the mental and emotional breakdown of Titus, a Roman war hero whose stubborn adherence to Roman tradition sparks numerous acts of merciless cruelty and revenge against his family to the point of their complete destruction...