Word: bombe
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...board since the end of the first frame and had yet to score a touchdown. Thanks to a forced fumble by senior linebacker Eric Schultz, Harvard gained control early in the fourth. In no time, Pizzotti connected with sophomore wide receiver Marco Ianuzzi for a 68-yard bomb downfield for a touchdown. “There’s no question it changed the whole complexion of the game, gave us momentum, gave us energy, and from there on in we just played inspired football,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said of the completion...
...attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad should tell us a couple of things: For a start, no one and nothing is safe from a car bomb. Or, as in the Marriott's case, a truck bomb. As hotels go, the Marriott was a fortress. It had fairly good "standoff" - the distance between it and the street; luggage and guests were X-rayed before entering; the hotel was located in one of the best policed capitals in the world. The only thing that could have been done to make the Marriott even safer was to have completely shut down Islamabad...
...Pakistan's new president Asif Zardari was supposed to have been dining at the Marriott when the bomb went off, but had decided at the last minute to eat at the prime minister's house. Had he kept to his original dinner plans, he could very well have been killed, pushing Pakistan closer to total and uncontainable chaos. By the way, there is a fairly good argument that car bombs are what keep the world's leaders from getting out and walking around, leaving them physically isolated...
...Earlier this year, for a British documentary, I spent a month traveling around the Middle East and Europe interviewing car bombers, collectively some of the greatest mass murderers of the 20th century. What I came away with is the certainty that the car bomb in unstoppable. It is detectable only if every car moving around a city is stopped and inspected, which obviously can't be done...
...bombs can change the course of history. Many believe that the IRA's 1993 truck bomb attack in in Bishopsgate, the center of London's financial district, helped convince Britain to seek a political settlement with the IRA. In 2005, a former Lebanese prime minister in 2005 was killed by a car bomb that provoked a cascade of events that led to Hizballah becoming the de facto sovereign authority in Lebanon. Or, on a happier side, the sharp drop off in car-bombs in Iraq has averted a civil war. And the Oklahoma City truck bombing effectively destroyed the right...