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...letters this year. In late January, Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz received a letter containing a suspicious white powder, a threat that turned out to be a hoax. Since the anthrax scares of 2002, threatening mail has become a popular method for turning an innocuous letter into a alarming??if not always lethal—terrorism device. —Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu...
Harvard Students for Israel released a statement over the weekend calling Khatami’s invitation “surprising and alarming?? because of Khatami’s leadership during the 1999 arrest and torture of several hundred Tehran University student protestors...
...More alarming??because it is less recognizable—opinion is covertly slipped into supposedly objective articles throughout the paper. For example, a few days ago—on the obituary page, no less—the Herald ran a news article on Phillip Johnson, the chairman of the Democratic State Committee. The first sentence: “Perhaps taking a cue from the national Democratic post-election struggle for identity, the state party boss yesterday changed his mind after announcing he was resigning as chairman.” If The New York Times ever had the gall...
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