and France discloses "a first edmonton oilers devises step" and acknowledges that it may "take a while" to end all fighting. Lebanese officials denounce the measure for not calling for Israeli troops to leave Lebanon. Israeli officials maintain silence, though they are believedto be supportive Syrian President Bashar Assad warns U. N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that "any decision taken without a Lebanese consensus will complicate matters and deepen instability. " The United Nations is expected to vote on the measure today or Tuesday. CasualtiesMore than 700 people have been killed in Lebanon. -- Israeli security officials say they have confirmed the deaths of 165 Hezbollah fighters and estimate 200 others have been killed. On the Israeli side, at least 94 people have died, of them 57 have been soldiers and 37 civilians. Four U. N. military observers and one civilian agency employee have also been killed in the 3 1/2 -weekold conflict. *King reported from Jerusalem and Stack from Beirut.

Times staff writers Nicole Gaouette in Crawford, Kim Murphy in Sidon and Beirut, Tracy Wilkinson in Kfar Giladi and Carolyn Cole in Tyre and special correspondent Vita Bekker in Haifa contributed to this report. "They are going to have to make a decision: which is, how far they want to go in defying the international community," he said. *(BEGIN TEXT OF INFOBOX)Casualties mount on both sidesLebanonIsraeli warplanes and artillery cause at least 20 deaths in Lebanon as strikes range from Beirut's suburbs to the southern border . Israeli troops battle Hezbollah guerrillas in close combat in villages near the frontier oilers hockey . Israeli warplanes attack Qana and destroy rocket launchers that fired on Haifa edmonton oilers rexall . The army says it has captured a Hezbollah militant involved in the July 12 raid in which two of its soldiers were taken. IsraelHezbollah fires more than 160 rockets into northern Israel, killing 12 reserve soldiers in Kfar Giladi and at least three Israeli Arabs in Haifa edmonton oilers photos . Dozens are also injured in the strikes on Haifa, Israel's third-largest city. DiplomacySecretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the draft U. N resolution crafted by the U. S. and France "a first step" and acknowledges that it may "take a while" to end all fighting.

Lebanese officials denounce the measure for not calling for Israeli troops to leave Lebanon . Israeli officials maintain silence, though they are believedto be supportive Syrian President Bashar Assad warns U. N rexall place map Edmonton Oilers Rexall Place - nhl . Secretary-General Kofi Annan that "any decision taken without a Lebanese consensus will complicate matters and deepen instability . " The United Nations is expected to vote on the measure today or Tuesday. CasualtiesMore than 700 people have been killed in Lebanon rexall place seating plan . -- Israeli security officials say they have confirmed the deaths of 165 Hezbollah fighters and estimate 200 others have been killed. On the Israeli side, at least 94 people have died, of them 57 have been soldiers and 37 civilians. Four U. N chris pronger . military observers and one civilian agency employee have also been killed in the 3 1/2 -weekold conflict. *King reported from Jerusalem and Stack from Beirut. Times staff writers Nicole Gaouette in Crawford, Kim Murphy in Sidon and Beirut, Tracy Wilkinson in Kfar Giladi and Carolyn Cole in Tyre and special correspondent Vita Bekker in Haifa contributed to this report. . NEW YORK — THE Times Square rehearsal space is mostly bare, with only a door stoop mapped out on the otherwise empty stage.

There eventually will be a minimal set, several lighting cues and a few sound effects and music . But when Chazz Palminteri launches the revival of his "A Bronx Tale" on Broadway, it will be almost all Palminteri and hardly anything else. When most little plays graduate from a 72-seat waiver house to a 947-seat auditorium on 48th Street, they collect all kinds of bells and whistles edmonton oilers hockey . As it's taken 18 years for Palminteri to finally get his one-man show to Broadway, he and director Jerry Zaks could be excused for reworking the once-small show into something bigger than it ever was before rexall seating . Yet Palminteri is convinced "A Bronx Tale" works just as well today as it did when it premiered in 1989 at the tiny West Coast Ensemble rexall seating chart Edmonton Oilers Rexall Place . The Walter Kerr Theatre is definitely a whole lot larger than that Hollywood space, but when his one-man play opens in New York on Thursday, it will be just as intimate as ever, without significant script revisions. For such an undersized play (it runs barely 90 minutes), "A Bronx Tale" accomplished a lot. When Palminteri first performed his semi-autobiographical account of a young boy's education, he was a 37-year-old nobody with scarcely a penny to his name.

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Both men love Cologio in their own ways, but the young man ultimately must decide what kind of life he wants to lead . "I learned something from these two men," the play's narrator (a grown Cologio) says near the play's end "I learned to give love and get love unconditionally rexall place detailed seating chart . And I learned the greatest gift of all: The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever. "The play is filled with colorful bit parts -- Rudy Ice, Frankie Coffee Cake, Eddie Mush -- and Palminteri gives every one of them a distinctive personality and voice rexall place seating chart . But those who either witnessed the play nearly two decades ago or saw the movie know that "A Bronx Tale" is as much a performance piece as it is a poem, an elegy to an era and one young man's coming of age. A bit of providenceLike the good fortune that intervenes in Cologio's life, the Broadway production of "A Bronx Tale" was the result of some unforeseen providence. Palminteri was playing the title role in the independent film "Yonkers Joe," about a gambling cheat and his son rexall . About halfway into production this year, Palminteri was having dinner with Trent Othick, one of the film's producers. "I have something I want to talk about," Palminteri told Othick, the producer recalls. The idea was to restage "A Bronx Tale" on Broadway, and Palminteri was talking to the right person "I have seen the movie probably 100 times," Othick says Edmonton Oilers Rexall Place - nhl .