Word: alarms
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...Tenure is the granting of complete academic freedom for the remainder of one’s life. While we don’t want to ‘miss’ we can’t ignore the seriousness of a false alarm,” said Cabot Professor of Social Ethics and Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe Mahzarin Banaji...
Could 9/11 have been prevented? In four crucial cases, mishandled intelligence, bureaucratic tangles and legal hurdles blinded the CIA and the FBI to clues right in front of them. Individually, none of these was a smoking gun. But combined they were a four-alarm fire. --By Mitch Frank...
...growing scholarly attention--the books and academic papers and conferences from Adelaide to Ottawa that explore Harry's connection to the Stoics, St. Augustine, Jung and Freud--and the renewed interest in children's literature that her books have fostered. But even those who view her with alarm or disdain pay her the same tribute as those who call her a savior. Both attest to her power over readers and the lessons she teaches through the stories she tells. There are tales of conversion when some critics actually get around to reading the books and find a message about good...
...recent years, he has become a sort of European uncle watching America with hope, alarm and clarity, consistently arguing against knee-jerk anti-Americanism. In the 1990s, he defended Operation Desert Storm and supported the U.S. interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo on human-rights grounds. But Habermas' carefully grounded tribute to international law also gives weight to his critiques of the Bush doctrine and the war in Iraq. For Habermas, it is the "morality of international law" that refutes Washington's "revolutionary perspective." In this collision of ideas about America's role in the world, Habermas emerges as the genuine...
...leaped from deep slumber into rubber boots and ulsters and then raced desperately across the campus to be in time for morning provers will sound as unreal as tales from ancient history. Compulsory church attendance on Sunday is also a thing of the past. Religion is no longer an alarm clock. The monitor's list of present and absent sent will no more serve as a discourage of week-end absence from New Haven promoter of Yale solidarity...