Word: alarmism
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Brian J. Distelberg ’05, a History and Literature concentrator in Winthrop House, is associate design chair of The Crimson. He will be setting his alarm clock a little earlier during the rest of this summer...
...precludes any concentration of forces; as long as the rebellion remains confined to Sunnis its maximum political support base is no bigger than 15 percent of the population - it's the idea of U.S. troops confronting an enemy indistinguishable from an often hostile civilian population that gets alarm bells ringing. A report in London's Evening Standard last week contained disturbing accounts, from interviews with U.S. troops, of incidents in which civilians have been killed. The hostility of the civilian population in towns such as Fallujah is plainly sapping the morale of U.S. troops who had expected to be home...
...Qura. The charity is believed to have been used by al-Qaeda to fund its own activities and those of JI. "We're talking about huge inflows of cash here," says a senior diplomat in Phnom Penh, "perhaps even millions of dollars, amounts so large that they set alarm bells ringing all over the place." Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen claimed that the men had been planning to attack a regional summit of foreign ministers, including U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, scheduled to take place in the capital this week...
After multiple court orders for the journalists’ release and demands for their freedom from international groups, including Harvard’s Nieman Fellows, Chavunduka and Choto were eventually released on bail and charged with “publishing a false story capable of causing alarm and despondency...
...Through what it calls its "alarm centers"-and there are 14 of them in Asia, from Shanghai to Saigon-International SOS acts as the medical-service provider for American Express platinum cardholders, and some Visa cardholders, as well as private and corporate clients. The members-only section of its website attempts to furnish these clients with the information they lack, tracking every virulent pox and security scare in the region. To browse it is to enter a landscape of meningococcal meningitis and dengue fever, of bush wars and (inevitably) the increased risk of terrorism...