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...were caught flat-footed by the Sept. 11 attack. The hijackings were a bolt-out-of-the-blue strike. And there will be another attack, again a bolt out of the blue. Everyone is sure of that. So count on both agencies to sound the alarm at the slightest provocation, so no one can say they didn't warn us ahead of time...
...fire alarm went off and I came downstairs and there was smoke coming out of the tutor’s room,” said Keia D. Cole ’03, a resident of Leverett’s C-entry. “It happened last year. I wasn’t afraid...
Resident Tutor John W. Asker caused the fire and ensuing alarm, when he forgot to open the flue in his fireplace...
...crisis has exposed problems in the system that could be disastrous in a bigger emergency. In that sense, the current, manageable alarm may actually serve as a sort of bureaucratic vaccine, exposing the government to a low dose of what a real bioterror attack is like so that it can fortify itself against a bigger hit later. If so, Thompson's department, which seems so unsure of itself now, will have to gain its footing in a hurry. Says Democratic Congressman Sherrod Brown of Ohio: "This should serve as a call to action...
...first problem with asking the Federal Government to intervene in a crisis of this kind is that too often no one knows just who should answer the alarm. The General Accounting Office concluded that there is a "significant coordination and fragmentation problem" in the government's ability to handle terrorism. "If I was going to rebuild the system," Thompson himself told TIME, "I'd probably make some changes...