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...about 1:30 a.m. yesterday morning, residents of New Quincy were jarred from their sleep—or from their Saturday night partying—by the blaring of a fire alarm...
...class. Many of the party's supporters have been attracted to its extremism. Jobbik's leader, Gabor Vona, is a founder of the Magyar Garda (Hungarian Guard) paramilitary group, whose anti-Roma rhetoric and adoption of nationalist symbols also used by World War II-era fascist groups have triggered alarm across Europe. The Hungarian Supreme Court banned the group last year, but while it was still active, many Jobbik politicians expressed sympathy for it. (See a brief history of WWII movies...
Khalil is referring to the sectarian violence that handcuffed the city to hell in 2006 and 2007. Today the citizens of Baghdad cannot help but see causes for alarm. U.S. forces, barred by a 2008 security agreement from entering the capital without an Iraqi invitation, have been called to assist with the investigation into the recent bombings. U.S. military and law enforcement are working shoulder to shoulder with Iraqis for on-the-job training in intelligence gathering and sharing and crime-scene investigation. Bombs that had been rigged at two houses were disabled on Tuesday based on tips, and nearly...
...seems like privacy is an oft-discussed concern in Britain. What has the government done that's been cause for alarm? There's always a balance between privacy and security. You've got to know where you want to draw that line, and for various reasons, the British government has drawn the line in a pretty frightening place. I think those reasons are terrorism, fear of crime and also the fact that we didn't we have the problems in the Second World War that our European neighbors did. We don't have the kind of collective memory of what...
...proliferation of free content from schools like Harvard may also alarm the many students who pay to attend, often at great financial inconvenience. After all, just this month, Harvard announced that the cost of tuition, room, and board will break the $50,000 barrier next year. Yet, though ironic in the face of increasing tuition, free academic content is not offered at the expense of students and in no way cheapens the value of a certified Harvard education. Students here and at other universities have direct and interactive access to libraries, educators, and each other, all of which...