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Boston area drivers make New York, Paris, and Beirut drivers--the latter being known for plowing into buildings while carrying tons of explosives--look like little old ladies from Kansas. Professional bus drivers have threatened to quit if sent to drive in Boston. Unfortunately, this frightening phenomenon affects Cambridge as well. When I applied to school here, I had no understanding of the "evil driver syndrome," or the black magic it would soon use to suck me into its vortex of fear and hatred...
Fouhy has had various jobs in his television journalism career. After commanding a U.S. Marine Corps battalion in Beirut, Fouhy got a job in television news as a reporter and producer in 1961, a time when "TV was an up and coming medium," he says...
...BEIRUT--Gunmen blocked a southern highway yesterday and abducted a top-ranking U.S. Marine officer serving with the U.N. peacekeeping force, bringing to nine the number of Americans held hostage in Lebanon...
Rather's emotional commitment to the story was clearly high. "In 1983, 241 Marines were murdered in Beirut by terrorists mounted by Iran," he says. "Most of them were 17 to 21 years old. They were our sons; they were our brothers. That burned in my memory. Then the incredible thing happened: over the dead bodies of those Marines, the United States of America sent our best missiles to Iranians who sponsored the killing. I never got that out of my head. How could that happen?" For a journalist, such fervid personal involvement might seem overwrought, not to say unprofessional...
...chapel of London's Lambeth Palace, Terry Waite's relatives gathered last week to observe the first anniversary of his disappearance. Although the Shi'ite Muslim Party of God is widely suspected of having kidnaped the Anglican Church official while he was on a humanitarian mission in Beirut to free two American captives, no group has ever claimed responsibility. Newspaper reports said Waite and other Western hostages were handed over to Iranian Revolutionary Guards earlier this year, but the accounts could not be verified. Waite's boss, Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev. Robert Runcie, recently confirmed that the church...