His killing has sent tremors along Lebanon's most tenuous political fault line, separating allies of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and those who oppose him.
The fight separated allies who had recently joined to spend billions of dollars to upgrade theaters for digital and 3-D projection, and had used their combined political might to thwart proposed trading in a financial exchange based on box office revenue.
The nations' painful pas de deux is easily seen as a cautionary illustration of how cultural misunderstandings can separate even allies as close as the United States and Japan.
In three separate incidents, allies, most from the Afghan National Army ANAallegedlyedly murdered six Americans -- two of them officers in the high-security sanctum of Kabul's Interior Ministry.
If NATO Article 5 is not invoked, then under a U.N. Security Council Resolution (but unilaterally as a coalition of the willing if vetoed or blocked), build an international expeditionary force, including the U.S., Russia, France and a coalition of the willing including separate NATO allies, Arab, regional, some G-20 and other supporting partner nations.
But if Hezbollah agreed to a settlement yet still maintained a separate army, allied with Iran and Syria, Lebanonn could become a target.
The bride, 27, is the deputy director of the domestic violence and sex crimes division of Safe Horizon, a separate but allied agency of the Bronx Criminal Court that interviews victims and provides appropriate referrals.
Most eukaryotes remain undescribed and the entry of a species into the Linnaean system does little to ensure its subsequent recognition because the subtle morphological characters that separate closely allied species often demand expert interpretation.
The evolving statements from the Obama administration show officials feeling their way through the tricky intersection of morality and pragmatism, as they separate from an ally of 30 years.
