Word: alarms
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...went to the Lampoon party; I’m a member of the Lampoon. It was great until some jackass pulled the fire alarm. The best part was the costumes, the costumes were really good. Alex Cooley’s peacock costume was the highlight, I’d say. I dressed up as the tennis player from The Royal Tenenbaums crossed with Jimmy Connors. I ended up sleeping on a couch at the Lampoon until the morning...
...fairness, Bush probably never expected North Korea or Iran to step out of line when he first brandished his “axis of evil” rhetoric in the aftermath of Sept. 11. He probably hoped that name-dropping would heighten our alarm and rally support for his particular response...
...just a few weeks, thousands of undergraduates at George Washington University will set their alarm clocks to wake up at dawn for the ghastly semiannual ritual known as preregistration. Students will battle it out on the web for seats in coveted courses for the spring 2003 semester. Churchgoers will pray, computer geeks will hack and others will simply hope for the best. That same day, undergraduates at Harvard College might be asked by a relative or a friend what courses they plan to take the next semester. Most of us will simply reply with a sigh of relief...
...Islamic fundamentalist parties with a history of links to terror groups were elected as part of a four-way electoral alliance led by Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The accession of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islamic Oikya Jote to power in Bangladesh rang alarm bells. Islamic Oikya Jote is open about its sympathies: it is well known for its support of Islamic fundamentalism, the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The party's membership largely duplicates that of the HUJI, which was founded in 1992 by Bangladeshi mujahedin returning from Afghanistan with orders from bin Laden...
Although only one U.S. serviceman was killed, the implications of last Tuesday's attack on a Marine training exercise in Kuwait may have set alarm bells ringing as far away as Washington. It had all the markings of a well-planned suicide operation: Anas Kandari, 21, and Jassem Hajiri, 26, had traveled from their homes in Kuwait City to the uninhabited island of Failaka, 12 miles offshore. There they had stalked U.S. Marines participating in an urban warfare exercise code-named "Eager Mace," before jumping out of a white pickup truck and spraying the Americans with Kalashnikov rifle fire...