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...only by his devotion to Hizballah. I would have trusted no other driver to bring me safely past the Israeli jets bombing our road. But fleeing Lebanon in a car decorated with the photograph of Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah while listening to Manar radio's "support the resistance" call-in chat show gave new meaning to the word surreal...
...called One in Four. "Now they're facing the possibility that what he did to them wasn't a crime. The emotional impacts of that are huge." Mr. A's release sparked grassroots demonstrations by thousands of people across the country on Friday, which were loosely organized through heated call-in radio shows. Outside the Parliament in Dublin, demonstrators blocked traffic and held white flowers to show compassion for the victims of sexual abuse. But they also seethed with frustration. "It's ridiculous," said Moira Gorman, 35, from Dublin. "If it's finance, [the government] acts quickly...
...Haditha and elsewhere have rocked the tightly knit 180,000-member Marine Corps. The Marines are by far the smallest uniformed service and think of themselves as an élite apart from the others. Former Marines across the country took the news of Haditha particularly hard, suggesting on radio call-in shows that if the allegations are true, the men are simply not real Marines. The Marines went into Iraq with deliberate plans to win the hearts and minds of Iraqis, telling the locals they would find "no better friend" if they cooperated but "no worse enemy" if they...
Nearly 100 students called in their support for the victims of the ongoing Sudanese genocide at an Adams House phone-banking event sponsored by the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG). The organizers of “Triple Play Call-In Day” asked students to call lawmakers at the state, national, and international level in support of policies to end the genocide. “I think it’s important to be aware of what’s going on in the world,” said Janaki N. Kibe ’08, an Adams resident...
...bouncy tennis ball and a Thomas the Train sticker usually do the job.) And he keeps on taking my phone calls despite knowing better than almost anyone my capacity for neurosis and hysteria. ("Are you sure that's diaper rash and not Ebola?") We talk early in the mornings (call-in hours start at 7) and on weekends. During ear-infection season we see each other about once a week. Lately I've been thinking about asking him to move in with me and my husband, but I'm not sure there's room in our driveway for a third...