Word: beirutization
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...Middle East. "There is a country and a regime that has been pounding at Lebanon with assassinations and explosions after explosions and killings after killings, which have been going on for over 30 years," Saad Hariri told TIME in an exclusive interview in his heavily guarded home in Beirut. "It is important to punish those who commit these crimes, for them to understand they don't have a license to kill. And if this tribunal doesn't happen, then the international community will have given a license to kill to the regime of [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad...
...Hariri was speaking hours after two remote-controlled bombs, filled with steel pellets, exploded minutes apart in two buses near the Christian town of Bikfaya in the Lebanese mountains 20 miles north of Beirut. The blasts killed three people and wounded over 20, heightening tensions a day before hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are expected to converge on downtown Beirut to commemorate Rafik Hariri's murder two years ago. Hariri condemned the explosions as an "act of terrorism" that aimed to "fill the hearts of people with fear." "I can't tell you that they [the perpetrators] haven't succeeded...
...felt kind of like the party that FM was never invited to in high school. In Cabot, a strapping junior played host in a charming bathrobe, but he wasn’t able to ward off the swarms of over-eager freshman. At the same party, two extremely enthusiastic Beirut players proved how manly they were by repeatedly slapping each other in the face. Hard. Did we say manly? We meant messed up. SATURDAY In Eliot Ground Zero, the Canadian Club’s “Mounties and Beavers” seemed far more popular than Canada itself ever...
...stay in the United States for the first three years of his Ph.D. program. He said in a phone interview from Montreal that after the fall of the Hussein regime in 2003, he “got the courage to leave and visit my family in Beirut, Lebanon, who had also left Iraq...
...July 1982, after a Christian Lebanese militia kidnapped the Iranian charge d'affaires in Beirut, the IRGC set in motion a campaign of retaliatory kidnappings, hijackings and assassinations against the U.S. and the West. The Iranian charge was a senior IRGC officer, and the IRGC had no intention of letting his kidnapping go unanswered. The IRGC campaign lasted for more than 10 years and dragged the U.S. into Iran-contra and the arms-for-hostages deal that nearly brought down the Reagan Administration...