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...Those looking for a military victory over the Palestinian uprising got some bad news recently from Martin van Creveld, a world-renowned military historian from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem whose work is routinely studied in U.S. military academies. Writing in Britain's Telegraph, Van Creveld warns that the lessons of comparable situations show that Israel cannot defeat the Palestinians. Israel may have one of the world's strongest conventional fighting forces ranged against an enemy armed only with assault rifles, homemade bombs, mortars and rockets, but that asymmetry is reversed when it comes to political will, he writes...
Because the isles are so remote, change happens at a glacial pace. One day while I was staying with the Simpsons, Lowrie mentioned the long line at the bank. I asked where the bank was, unable to recall having seen it. "Oh, it comes around in a van once a week," he said. The mobile library comes once every three weeks. Most people on the tiny island (pop. 1,000) don't bother with a mailbox. The letter carrier just opens the front door and leaves their mail in a convenient place...
...Staff writer M. Helene van Wagenberg can be reached at mvan@fas.harvard.edu...
First period: D, Pietrangelo (Muranko, McCullough) 15:44. Second Period: D, Walton (Muranko), 3:44. Third Period: D, Catlin (McCullough) GWG 1:47. H, Hagerman (Ingram) 4:18. H, Ingram (Corriero, Van Reesema) 10:32. D, McCullough ENG 19:59. Shots on goal: H 7-14-8 29. D 5-7-7 19. Penalties: H 4-8, D 5-10. Power Play: H 0-5. D 0-4. Goalies: H, Kuusisto, (15-3). D, Ferguson...
Boskovski himself contributed to the controversy over the case, first claiming that the men were driving a van, but later saying that they were, in fact, walking and carrying weapons and uniforms of the officially disbanded ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (UCK) on their backs...