Word: mayhem
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Good thing Russia doesn't have chain restaurants spread all over the world, because the Chechens appear to have some very angry friends. Four rocket-propelled grenades slammed into the Russian embassy in downtown Beirut, Monday, killing two policemen and recalling that city's heyday as the mayhem capital of the Middle East. The attacks followed weeks of protest by local Islamic militants against Russia's military campaign in Chechnya, which the U.S. warned Sunday could become an albatross around the neck of acting President Vladimir Putin if he's unable to find an exit strategy...
...could take a couple of days; the assembly process would have been tricky as well. Ressam's chosen crossing point seemed amateurish: he would stand out among the sparse travelers. And though he could be a lone crank with a totally fanciful notion of what it takes to perpetrate mayhem, if he is not, it means several other people have to be in on the plot. "It's a multiheaded monster," says a French official, adding, "There are probably other Ressams out there right...
...parlor game: Who had the greatest impact on this century, for better or worse? It is too easy just to say that he lost, when in doing so he still changed everything. It was he who opened the veins of the Bloody Century, an epoch that has seen mayhem on a scale unimagined for centuries before. "As a result of Hitler," argued Elie Wiesel in TIME last year, "man is defined by what makes him inhuman." And while the Reich lasted 12 years rather than 1,000, its spores still survive and multiply. "The essence of Hitlerism--racism, ethnic hatred...
ROBERT DOWNEY JR. Gets jail time for drug mayhem. Can't green-light you, kid, but Gandhi did best work in prison
...Times Square on New Year's Eve could conceivably look like a scene out of a Quentin Tarantino movie, with different groups of terrorists - unaware of each other and motivated by passions as diverse as Middle Eastern Islamic fundamentalism and midwestern right-wing conspiracy theories - converging to spread bloody mayhem at ground zero of America's millennium celebration. It's a truly scary scenario, in which acolytes of monsters as different as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden engage in a kind of terrorism Olympics with innocent New Yorkers as their cannon fodder. But it's a scenario for which...