Word: terrorizing
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Sixteen hundred freshmen implies 1600 freshman stories. Some are funny; most are ordinary. Once in a rare while a freshman story will embody the absolute essence of mortal terror and existential nausea, a crash dive into the dark firmament of human life. In these stories the inscription above Dexter Gate reads not "Enter to grow in wisdom," but instead "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...
Although responsibility for the cafeteria attack remained unclear at week's end, Parisians suspected it was the work of the Committee for Solidarity with Arab Political Prisoners. The shadowy, Syrian-oriented terror group has claimed responsibility for the post office explosion and for at least eight other Paris bombings over the past nine months. The attacks have left three people dead and more than 100 wounded. Just a few days before the post office tragedy, the organization took responsibility for planting a 4-lb. bomb aboard a rush-hour commuter train. The device was discovered by a passenger and successfully...
...place where the root cause idea does survive is the Middle East. The issue is terrorism, and the argument is familiar: Isn't the best way to fight terror to go after the root causes? Counterterrorism, embargoes, threats and, finally, air raids treat only symptoms. Band-Aids on a wound. (The metaphors mix.) Why not attack the root causes? In the context of the Middle East, that means "solving the Palestinian problem." Accommodation between Israel and the Palestinians. The way out of the nightmare. Jews and Arabs living together in historic Palestine. An end to war. Peace as the cure...
Unfortunately -- unfortunately for Palestinians, Israelis and assorted innocents who wander into the crossfire -- the logic fails. To understand why, one must start by asking, Who are the terrorists? The major sponsors of Middle East terror are Iran, Syria and Libya. And its major practitioners are Islamic fundamentalists, pro-Syrian nationalists and Palestinian extremists. These groups and states are distinguished not just by their choice of means but by the nature of their end. And their end is not peace with Israel. It is peace with no Israel...
After half a block, there was indeed a bus stop. The KGB man leaped aboard a trolley as the door was starting to close. As it pulled away, the journalists caught a glimpse of the agent's face peering through a frost- rimmed window, pop-eyed with terror. He had been as frightened as the reporters...