Word: beirutization
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...rocketed onto the world stage, a charismatic Socialist leader looking to be France's first female President. Now, after her roller-coaster, gaffe-tainted campaign--even leftists criticized her meeting with a bombastic Hizballah lawmaker in Beirut--Ségolčne Royal is in the final round of the presidential campaign...
...fathers of Hizballah and its first secretary-general, the gruff 60-year-old cleric knows the barracks well - during the turbulent 1980s, it housed fighters from his organization and a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, as well as several Western hostages, including William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut who died in captivity. But that was then...
...history to its early roots. President Bush’s pro-force policies can be traced back to Thomas Jefferson, who in 1790 recommended that the United States go to war with the Barbary pirates, and Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, who dispatched Marines to protect Americans living in Beirut, which was war-torn even at the turn of the 20th century. Bush’s support of American businesses in the region even calls to mind the value Andrew Jackson placed on Middle Eastern trade...
...common scene at a Harvard party: a freshman who has no idea of his or her tolerance downs one too many shots or plays a few too many games of Beirut. Minutes later, the plastered partygoer is on the floor passed out and panic sets in among his friends (who, in many cases, are drunk, themselves). In the moments that follow, someone must muster the responsibility to decide whether or not to take their friend to University Health Services (UHS) or wait it out in hopes that he’ll awaken from his blackout intact...
...have no playground, no places to play... because of the occupation.” The reaction to last night’s show was overwhelmingly positive. One man looking at the photography, Said Ghorayeb, said, “I know what this is about. I am from the area, Beirut. This is great. This might be these kids’ only chance to be something other than fighters.” Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, a second-year graduate student in comparative literature who organized the event, lauded the fact that it gave Palestine a voice...