Word: beirutization
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Those simultaneous attacks were the most devastating terror assault the U.S. has suffered overseas since the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. Though Washington retaliated 13 days later, with cruise-missile strikes at Osama's base in Afghanistan, U.S. officials are still licking their wounds. The bin Laden attacks came despite a four-year secret campaign by the U.S. government to contain and control his activities--a frustrating war of attrition in which Washington has both won and lost battles. American agents have tracked, arrested and interrogated members of Osama's terror cells in dozens of countries...
...large majority of terrorists who carried out operations--those who bombed the U.S. embassy in Beirut, American peacekeepers in Lebanon, U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, Pan Am 103; those who hijacked TWA 847 and shot up the Rome and Vienna airports--have never been caught or punished. Countries long deemed the fountainheads of terrorism, like Iran, Syria and Sudan, have never felt the sting of U.S. retaliation. Even so, as the Administration dispatched its teams of investigators to Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Berger vowed that the U.S. would succeed. Said he: "Our strongest weapon is our persistence...
Weld's small-government philosophy appealed to Bay State residents in 1990. Former Governor Michael Dukakis had left the state, in Weld's words, "a fiscal Beirut." In September 1990 the state's bond rating, the lowest in the nation, dropped again...
...house filled, the band played and people got drunk, guys from the Penn State fraternity proceeded with one of their house traditions--whipping out their testicles from their togas while walking around the house repeatedly declaring, "This party's nuts. This party's nuts." Later, Beirut was played "balls...
...hard to overlook much of what is behind a fraternity's existence. As humorous as they may be, I have difficulty justifying hazing events such as "Food Beirut." (Especially knowing that hazing events at other schools are often far worse.) It is even more difficult to overlook the social ills and dangerous circumstances fostered by fraternities that at best result in uncomfortable social situations and, at worst, result in horrific events like the death of Scott Kruegger...