Word: blasting
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...former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres late Wednesday to implement the stillborn Sharm el Sheik agreement brokered three weeks ago by President Clinton. And that may have been its precise intention: The Islamic Jihad organization, which has rejected the peace process from the get-go, claimed responsibility for the blast. Its fellow Islamist organization Hamas, which has also used terrorist bombings as a weapon against the peace process, also vowed Thursday to ignore the latest cease-fire...
...bombings of the U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, it took 40 hours to get most FBI investigators on site. Learning from Africa, Freeh created five special Rapid Deployment teams around the country ready to fly anywhere. The first FBI boots hit Yemen four hours after the blast. Agents then arrived in waves over the next 30 hours...
...know. Laughter is one of the mysteries - an out-of-body experience, an exuberant jailbreak of the self: a detonation. In that, laughter resembles sex. Or do I mean sneezing? Anyway, there's an outburst, a blast of something that aspires to ecstasy. But unlike sex, laughter (unless it is bitter, derisive laughter, the weapon of scorn) has a gregarious quality: shared, social. Why not? Comedy originated with phallic pageants in ancient Greece, in which men would caper around wearing immense penises. Lots of laughs...
...other day and discussing the lack of big names on the Boston concert calendar this year compared to previous years. Fortunately, there's a host of talented lesser-known faces arriving. Elliott Smith comes into town tomorrow, while Lockgroove, who headlined last year's Crimson-Advocate band showcase Blast!, performs at the Wheeler-Lynch Gallery. On Monday, alt-metal band Slipknot comes to Avalon while sensation Jill Scott sings at the Paradise. Jill Scott is, of course, part of that same amazing revival of Philly R&B and soul that produced the Roots. (Indeed, Scott wrote the Roots' slinky...
...Pentagon's moves to stabilize the Cole were swift, but efforts to explain how last week's attack could have taken place offered little cause for comfort. The size of the blast, the perpetrators' ability to conceal the bomb and their advance knowledge of the arrival of the Cole--the ship's commanders notified Yemeni authorities 10 days before last Thursday that it would refuel in Aden--suggest that the attack was plotted weeks, even months, in advance. Once it pulled into Aden, the ship was highly vulnerable--to the bevy of small craft mingling around it, to the port...