Word: bunkerism
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...silly in Jamaica--these are the whistle-stops in the life of the privileged college student, and I do not begrudge them, for myself or others. But it seems sad, really, that many folks will graduate from Harvard having been up the Washington Monument but not the one on Bunker Hill, having been to Ireland but not South Boston, the home of Kafka but not of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, or Longfellow...
Next on the griddle were Clinton's most dogged lieutenants, the bunker squad--chief of staff John Podesta, counsel Beth Nolan and endlessly faithful consigliere Bruce Lindsey. All of them had the same message: During those wild, sleepless final days, they had protested in force against the notion of pardoning Rich, a fugitive who had illegally bought more than $200 million worth of oil from Iran during the hostage crisis and dodged paying $48 million in one of the biggest tax frauds in history. They were so adamant in their opposition that after a Jan. 16 meeting, they assumed...
Doing his best to hide his concern--secrecy is his middle name--Arafat is terrified to the point of paranoia, some of his confidants say, about Sharon's coming to power. Here is the former general who tried to kill him with air strikes on his Beirut bunker, who was found by an official Israeli report 18 years ago to bear "indirect responsibility" for the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Maybe the coming of the old warrior is what recently led a clearly unnerved Arafat to grab a machine gun from a bodyguard and leap...
...Another time, we were at the huge Iraqi air base at Talil, as U.S. troops were first capturing it. These guys said they'd found an Iraqi bunker, and were about to call an artillery strike to take it out. I look through the binoculars, and although there's an anti-aircraft gun on top, the structure is the Mound of the Ziggurat - a step pyramid reputed to be the spot where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac. The beginning of civilization, one of the oldest structures in the world. So we pleaded with them not to do it, and urged...
...odometer first flipped in New Zealand--a place experts believed was so dependent on technology it would surely implode if its computers believed the year was 1900--it was only a little shocking that absolutely nothing happened anywhere on or above the globe. Airplanes stayed in the air. Y2K bunker dwellers began to pack up canned food for the soup kitchens. People, in general, went to bed early...