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...conscripted into a rebel army. While he fought, his family was killed. Six years ago, he fled to South Africa and found work as a security guard. Now comes the reckoning. "I was at work when my friends called me to tell me that my house was on fire," he says. "On my way into town, a mob attacked me with sticks." Arriving at hospital, "the South African doctor told me: all you foreigners must go home." Kasanda's damning verdict on South Africa: "There is no help, and it's not safe here...
...pasture, it’s going to be like walking into a pasture,” said J.P. Licks founder Vince Petryk of the unorthodox plans for his new Mass. Avenue location. “They dry it and then it’s treated to be fire-proof. This is for all intents and purposes a grass-covered store....I don’t know if it’s going to look great or bad, but it’ll be different...
Surrounded by a ring of mountains like a concert band shell, Beirut has great acoustics. So the roiling street battles on May 8 between Hizballah militiamen and supporters of the Lebanese government echoed through the city with a drumroll of rocket explosions and a chorus of machine-gun fire that sounded like the symphonic overture to civil war. When an early-summer thunderstorm began that night, it seemed as if the heavens themselves were taking up the ominous theme...
Despite the backing of the U.S., Western Europe and Arab states like Saudi Arabia, Siniora barely clings to power from his official residence and office in the Grand Serail, a former Turkish fortress surrounded by rings of barbed wire and riot police. But it is Hizballah's fire-breathing leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who's calling the shots...
...even if it did win a free and fair election. This is not even to suggest official U.S.-Hamas talks. Those should be a reward for good behavior - perhaps not the recognition of Israel, which Hamas considers a matter to be resolved in formal negotiations, but a real cease-fire - for starters, the end of rocket attacks from Gaza. Meanwhile, the unofficial contacts that people like Malley have with Hamas are extremely valuable. They are the avatars of negotiation. In Iraq, the U.S. military has had quiet talks with everyone from the Sunni insurgents in Fallujah...