Word: southernization
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...nothing like their peer recognition, receiving not so much as an Oscar nomination for his directorial work. A more appropriate Mann would be Michael, whose big-screen version of his Miami Vice TV series opens this weekend. The haunted tough guys of Thief and Heat occupy a Southern California nightscape within hailing distance of the one that Anthony Mann's antiheroes crawled through in the '40s. Yet film noir was just one of the genres our guy vivified and perfected...
Another nine percent of respondents to the survey, which polled 2,029 individuals in high-risk hurricane areas across eight Southern states, said they were unsure if they would evacuate...
...Only civilians live here. There is no Hizballah. Why did they hit us?? asks Mustafa Hashem, a diamond merchant whose uncle lives in an adjacent building. But the street looks familiar to this reporter, who interviewed Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, Hizballah?s southern commander, several years ago in his office in a building located where the missile-struck block stood. At the beginning of the campaign, Israeli jets bombed Qaouk?s home in the village of Jibsheet, a few miles to the north of here. But Qaouk has apparently gone into hiding with other top leaders, which perhaps explains the lack...
...centers. Israel has therefore committed ground forces that have fought fierce battles (with substantial Israeli casualties) for control of Hizballah positions at Maroun al-Ras, Bint Jebeil and a handful of smaller villages. But Israeli Defense Force officials say there are at least 170 more such Hizballah strongholds throughout southern Lebanon, and they admit that Israel would have to occupy the territory all the way up to the Litani River to have any chance of eliminating the militant group as a fighting force...
...From the beginning of the current conflict, however, reoccupying southern Lebanon is exactly what Israeli military and political leaders have wanted to avoid. They know better than anyone that Israeli society is not prepared to bear the cost in terms of ongoing casualties and long-term encroachment on the country's standard of living presented by the frequent call-ups of military reservists that a renewed occupation of Lebanon would require. Instead, the Israeli military is looking to redefine victory as the outsourcing of control of southern Lebanon to an international force...