Word: 1980s
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...white walls and guard towers of the hilltop Sheikh Abdullah military barracks are clearly visible from the home of Sheikh Sobhi Toufeili. As one of the founding fathers of Hizballah and its first secretary-general, the gruff 60-year-old cleric knows the barracks well - during the turbulent 1980s, it housed fighters from his organization and a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, as well as several Western hostages, including William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut who died in captivity. But that was then...
...managers didn't have to pick pinch hitters, or pull off slick double switches. For years it was the home of all-or-nothing strikeout kings too bulky to play the field - think Greg "The Bull" Luzinski, the DH for the Chicago White Sox in the early 1980s, or Reggie Jackson late in his career...
These aren't hypothetical concerns for a Syrian. The country was paralyzed by years of coups and plots until the Assad regime came to power in 1970; the Muslim Brotherhood launched a terror war against the regime in the 1980s; and Syria is still formally at war with Israel, which occupies Syrian land and almost certainly has spies operating here. As the saying goes, sometimes even the paranoid have enemies...
...Pays to Be Nice I was disgusted by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "No Jerks Allowed" [April 2]. Her attitude is from the aggressive 1980s. It is ridiculous to claim that there is a correlation between nastiness and giftedness. Some nasty people happen to be gifted, but it is not their nastiness that makes them so; on the contrary, it diminishes their effectiveness and costs their companies in both dollars and goodwill. I would not want to have a Steve Jobs or anyone on my team who "scars" his employees. Warren Buffett and Jimmy Carter, for example, do not find...
...leading catbirds, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman and Apollo's Leon Black, happen to be old pals of Silverman's. In the 1980s, Silverman too was an LBO artist, working alongside corporate raider Saul Steinberg and funding his exploits with Michael Milken's Drexel junk bonds. Then, as a partner at Blackstone in the early 1990s, he sniffed a change in the financial winds, cobbled together a few struggling hotel chains (starting with Ramada and Howard Johnson) into Hospitality Franchise Systems (HFS), took the company public and stayed...