Word: beiruters
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...potentiality. Sometimes a story’s potential is clear. Seymour Hersh’s article on Abu Ghraib “made” the news while changing American policy. Other times, a story’s potential is harder to judge. An article in a small Beirut newspaper led to the Iran-Contra scandal. Closer to home, who could have guessed that an article about “intrinsic aptitudes” nearly a year and a half ago would crystallize Faculty resistance and lead to the ouster of University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...betray their principles through political intrigue. Someday, Muslim authorities will condemn the atrocities by hard-liners, just as Pope John Paul II denounced the Inquisition. In the meantime, Western powers might want to influence their political allies in the region to improve the conditions of their people. Antoine Chemali Beirut...
...Alums recall Kristof as one of the brightest undergraduates on campus—he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. But he didn’t strike his peers as the type who would be held up at machine-gunpoint in Beirut and elude rebels chasing him through the jungle in Congo...
...Technically, the Tigers did not invent modern suicide bombing - the first such attack was against the American embassy in Beirut in 1983. They did however turn it into a vicious art form. Tigers adapted explosives so that they could be used on land, sea and air - thanks to the purchase of what Sri Lankan intelligence services say is a small squadron of microlight aircraft. Bombs were disguised to fit around, and even inside, the body. Among Tiger victims: a president, the head of the Sri Lankan air force, a minister of national security, an opposition leader and a former prime...
...scientist at the University of Ghent. "But the VB is responsible for creating an atmosphere and popularizing the theme of racial tension." He worries that such racially-charged crimes are eroding tolerance in a country that can't exist without it. "It's not like we're living in Beirut," he says. "But we are losing control...