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...Beirut Did Hizballah Kill Hariri? Lebanese Shi'ite paramilitary group Hizballah is believed to have orchestrated the 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri (pictured), according to a report in the German magazine Der Spiegel. The report, which cites an unnamed source linked to the U.N. tribunal investigating the assassination, was published two weeks before Lebanon's parliamentary elections, in which Hizballah and its allies will face off against a Western-backed coalition. Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah has dismissed the allegations as an "American-Israeli scheme" to incite political turmoil and sabotage the election...
...that brought Hizballah worldwide infamy came the following year: the 1983 suicide bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 American servicemen - the largest single-day death toll for the Marine Corps since Iwo Jima. The eventual U.S. pullout from Beirut in 1984 was seen as Hizballah's first "victory" -strengthening their credibility within Lebanon as an organization that could truly bring about change...
...resurrection of Lebanon will find no choice but to accept the principle of consensus." There was no similar cautionary tone in the remarks of Saad Hariri, the leader of Lebanon's pro-Western governing coalition. "Congratulations to you, congratulations to freedom, congratulations to democracy," he told supporters in Beirut. "There is no winner and loser in these elections. The only winner is democracy and Lebanon...
...first year of graduate school. In over three years of dating, Mims and Crocker have studied abroad together for a semester in St. Andrew’s, Scotland, and spent three long days crabbing and taught themselves how to shuck crabs. And, the two claim they make a fierce Beirut team. Mims has not one but two engagement rings. When Crocker asked for her parents’ permission over the summer, they told him to ask them again in a month, at which point he gave her a family heirloom ring. After asking her parents again and receiving their blessing...
...lawyers in the management of deliveries by making litigation very difficult. During the 1960s the institution with the lowest rate of cesareans was considered the best for training residents. Neonatologists agree that increasing the rate of cesareans does not necessarily mean better babies. Fayez Suidan M.D., AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT, MEDICAL CENTER, BEIRUT...