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More than anyone, Hariri was responsible for resurrecting Lebanon from the chaos and blight of its bloody civil war, which ravaged the country from 1975 until 1990. During his tenure, gleaming hotels and apartment towers sprang up along Beirut's Mediterranean shore. Perhaps that is why it was there, on a bend in the famed seafront corniche just by the five-star Phoenicia Hotel, that a thunderous explosion blew apart Hariri's armor-plated convoy, killing him and 14 others. As the blast showered the pavement with broken glass and sent a column of black smoke into the sky, suspicion...
Three years after the al-Qaeda attacks, academia is embracing the post-9/11 world. Some 200 colleges and universities offer homeland-security studies much as, decades ago, national-security programs sprang up to address the issues of the cold war. Community colleges--already in the business of training fire fighters, police officers and medical technicians to deal with hurricanes and earthquakes--were first to mount new certification programs tailored to unnatural disasters. Four-year institutions quickly followed. Last fall San Diego State launched an interdisciplinary master's degree in homeland security, attracting students from nursing, criminal justice and political...
McDermott, the league leader in per-game passing and offense, had absorbed a bone-crunching hit on Penn’s final play against Princeton last week, leaving his availability for the Harvard game in doubt. As Saturday’s title bout with the Crimson neared, various diagnoses sprang up on websites and newspapers from Philadelphia to Cambridge. A bruised collarbone. A broken collarbone. An injury to his non-throwing shoulder. McDermott wouldn’t play. He’d play, but not start...
...money, we had a ground operation the likes of which has never been seen, and we had a good candidate who stood toe to toe with the President and bested him in three debates," sighs Harold Ickes, who ran two of the cash-rich outside groups that sprang up in this election to help the Democrats contend with the G.O.P. fund-raising advantage. "We had all that, and we still lost. People are going to ask, 'What do we have to do?' There's going to be a real aftershock...
...danger ahead in August sprang from the combined vagaries of the calendar and the campaign-finance laws. Once Kerry accepted his party's nomination at the Democratic Convention on July 29, he would be bound by a strict spending limit of $75 million in public money--a straitjacket that President George W. Bush would not have to put on until his own convention finished Sept. 2. By early June, some of Kerry's media advisers wanted to change the game...