Word: mud
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...week, the slightly nauseating odor of oil was noticeable along coastal areas of Saudi Arabia near the border with Kuwait. Within days, observers could see the source of the smell: a 16-km (10-mile) band of crude, so thick in places that the water heaved like mud. Iraq is believed to have opened the spigots of Kuwait's main supertanker-loadin g pier, the Sea Island terminal, 16 km offshore from the country's major petroleum refinery and loading complex at Mina Al-Ahmadi. Through pipes leading from giant storage tanks, millions of gallons of crude had been poured...
Buried by His Own Mud In the midst of a close re-election campaign against Paul Wellstone, Minnesota Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz issued a letter reminding the state's Jewish community that he was "the better Jew." He , attacked Wellstone for having "no connection" with Judaism and stated that his children "were brought up as non-Jews." At the polls, voters retired the "Rabbi of the Senate...
When the oil money started accumulating seriously in the early 1950s, the Sabahs concocted a sophisticated scheme for distributing the windfall. Kuwait City, where 80% of the population still lives (or lived before August), was a town of mud huts. The Emir set about building a modern metropolis, a place not unlike Houston, with its skyscraper business center surrounded by villa-style suburbs. In Kuwait, too, each "suburb" became a self-contained microcosm of a city. The neighborhoods were established as cooperatives. Each had its own supermarkets, schools, medical centers and municipal services...
...last week's St. Andrew's Day (Nov. 30), the final great red-letter day of the school's anniversary year, was celebrated in typically Etonian style, with a staging of the annual Wall Game, a notorious blood sport in which 20 savage nobles flail and scramble in the mud in what is fittingly known as a "bully." Punching is forbidden, but applying "steady pressure" with one's fist upon a face is warmly encouraged. The poet Shelley was once used as a ball. No goal has been scored since before World...
Though Iran-contra ranked as the most insidious scam of the mud-spattered '80s, not one of the eight convicted offenders has spent a night in jail. Last week a court ruling made it likely that the two key culprits, Oliver North and John Poindexter, would also see their records scrubbed clean in legal terms. Further, the decision may force Congress to choose between , spectacular public hearings and criminal prosecutions in future scandals...