By Sonja Pace, VOA News
Hezbollah fired rocket salvos into northern Israel Friday, including Haifa, where at least 19 people were injured. Israeli warplanes carried out more strikes across Lebanon while the army called up reserve units amid expectations that Israeli ground operations in southern Lebanon are to be stepped up.
U.S. Marines help U.S. citizens as they wait to board a CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, for a flight to Cyprus.DoD photo by Gunnery Sgt. James H. Frank, U.S. Marine Corps
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By Philip Wuntch
The Dallas Morning News (MCT)
LADY IN THE WATER – M. Night Shyamalan's latest foray stars Paul Giamatti as an apartment superintendent who discovers a friendly fantasy creature in the swimming pool.
MONSTER HOUSE – In this animated tale, a couple of teens rightly suspect that the house across the street eats people.
MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND – Luke Wilson should know better than to dump Uma Thurman. Turns out, she's a superhero.
CLERKS II – Sequel takes place 10 years after the first "Clerks" and finds the slackers once again trying to break out of another dead-end job.
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Old-school guy like Selmon can't understand Owens
By David Whitley
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)
ORLANDO, Fla. _ A book has just come out, and it isn't on Lee Roy Selmon's summer reading list. It's nothing personal, he just doesn't like the author's style.

Lee Roy Selmon, from the NFL Hall of Fame
Visit T.O.'s website
T.O.'s new book, on sale now, will be available soon at your local library.
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"Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (6 August 1715 to 28 May 1747) was a French moralist, essayist, and miscellaneous writer.
Read the Marquis de Vauvenargues 1746 book Introduction à la connaissance de l’esprit, in French, free from the Université du Québec å Chicoutimi.
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
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