Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Stockman. The first to desert a sinking ship is the first to discover the ship is sinking...
Kudos to Massachusetts on becoming the eighth state to adopt a bottle bill [Nov. 30]. During our summer clean-up campaign we found beverage containers far surpassed paper-type litter. No matter what the bottle industry claims, their product has made our beautiful Arizona desert the garbage pit of America...
...that analysis of Gaddafi is sound, the desert denizen who sees himself as the slighted messiah of a scorned nation may have launched a frightful new era in modern-day terrorism. To be sure, the 20th century does not lack for examples of political murder. But the threat of assassination of a head of government may now have been elevated by Gaddafi, in an era of worldwide terrorism, to a conscious act of statecraft by a sovereign nation. "For years after World War II, heads of state were considered off-limits to assassination teams," observes Paul Wilkinson, professor of international...
...understand Gaddafi is to understand his heritage. Son of a nomadic livestock trader, he was born in a tent in the desert near the Libyan town of Sirte in 1942 Libya was then occupied by the forces of Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini, and its people were treated, at best, as fifth-class citizens. That bitter memory, as much as his tribal upbringing and education in Muslim schools, shaped Gaddafi...
Lately, we have dwelt much on our impotence. Helicopters that won't fly in the desert, fly fine on a screen. Video games taste of power without purpose, like the smell of napalm in the morning. Our national naval gazing has led us to wish for more submarines, a resurgence of might that cannot remedy the defect of leadership determined to defend rights it only vaguely states. Like bigger defense budgets, video games, a projection of this shadowy pornography of power, curses rather than cures our seeming impotence...