Word: southerners
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...states were concerned areas of high risk to U.S. personnel. This despite the fact that the governments of most of these states are U.S. allies. And earlier this week, it was reported that the U.S. Navy has decided temporarily to avoid the Suez Canal, instead rerouting vessels around the southern tip of Africa to reach the Gulf. This was a troubling indicator of the state of the Pax Americana that has prevailed in the region since the Gulf War. After all, the whole point of deploying your navy in distant waters is the projection of power - it sends a message...
Tournament seedings are often skewed by regional considerations, but since all first-round games are at southern host sites this year, the Crimson's standing must have been entirely based on its merit...
...began eight years ago, in the rubble of a candidacy toppled by a third-party candidate and a charismatic Southern governor...
...latest clashes between Israelis and Palestinians have offered a good pretext. In a TIME interview at his fortified office in Beirut's southern suburbs, Hizballah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah made it clear that the group's political aims in Lebanon have become secondary to the regional jihad to free Jerusalem from Israeli occupation. "There is no doubt that our most important role is in the region," he explained. "We have experience, and we are ready to help. All means must be used to help the Palestinians." U.S. officials contend that Hizballah is training radical Palestinian factions for terrorist operations...
...trip to the next, as an ever expanding network of side roads penetrates deep into the rain forest. The tinderbox effect is already noticeable in many parts of the Rondonia territory in western Brazil and is responsible for large tracts of unproductive and abandoned desert land in the southern part of Brazil's Para state, where it is unlikely that primary growth will ever take hold again. It is tragic that we've been warned about the destruction of the Amazon forest for so long, but nothing is being done to stop it. There is still time...