Word: beirutization
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...gained from the accounts of hostages. If we can compile all this information in a step-by-step guide with a "what to do" and "what not to do" approach, we might be able to reduce the number of deaths, especially among innocent children. Rita Merhej, Clinical Psychologist Beirut It is hard to understand that there are people so inhuman they can wage war on infants and children and truly believe these innocents are legitimate targets. The sight of the bloodied and crying children shook me to my very soul. The world must unite against these terrorists, condemn their actions...
Debunking Harvard in most places internationally is also likely to ring hollow. While students at the Sorbonne might cackle with glee as you relate to them the evils of Physics 11a sections, students at Qatar University won’t even believe you; and students from Beirut University might angrily demand that you try a couple classes in his shoes. Not to mention that any non-college educated person in any foreign country will immediately affirm their conception of Americans as spoiled if you pine away about your tough life on the banks of the Charles. Or at least that...
Most schools outside of the American bubble don’t have sections or office hours, taped classes or academic advisers. The tuition at Beirut University is $100 per semester, and it shows. Debunking Harvard to all but students from the most affluent and prestigious universities worldwide will only run others’ perceptions of Harvard’s eager study abroad-ers into the ground. By trying to be too modest, Harvard students will only come off as too arrogant...
DIED. NUHA AL-RADI, 63, Iraqi ceramist and painter best known for her book Baghdad Diaries, a vivid, witty account of the daily life of Iraqis during the first Gulf War and its aftermath; of pneumonia linked to treatment for leukemia; in Beirut. She was wryly resigned to Saddam Hussein's violent regime, but also critical of the U.S. for bombing her native city and killing civilians. Fearing persecution, she chose to live in exile in Beirut after her book was published...
...March, when the share price and investor confidence slumped. DIED. NUHA AL-RADI, 63, Iraqi ceramist and painter best known for her 1998 book Baghdad Diaries, a vivid, witty account of life in that city during the first Gulf War; of pneumonia linked to treatment for leukemia; in Beirut. Critical of the U.S. bombing of Baghdad but wryly resigned to Saddam Hussein's regime, she chose to live in exile, fearing persecution after her book was published. DIED. BILLY DAVIS, 72, singer-songwriter turned advertising executive best known for writing the '70s corporate anthem I'd Like...