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...same time, no one is expecting the conflict to end abruptly, especially the military commanders who work out of one of Saddam's ornate palaces overlooking the Tigris River in Tikrit. "We expect a spike in enemy activity," says Captain Mitch Carlisle. "We're more focused on alert than ever. We're not letting our guard down...
...police operations under way [in Britain]," notes a senior French antiterrorist official. "Concern is high that attack plots may be advancing swiftly. I've never seen the British quite this alarmed." British authorities are tight-lipped about their concerns, but the nation has been on its second highest terrorism alert for about a month now. "Given the number of operations by British police," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, "they're apparently going after more than one plot and group." Three weeks ago, London Mayor Ken Livingstone said police had thwarted four separate plots "to actually cause mayhem and take...
...sides have reached a point of confrontation," says Mustafa Alani, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies in London. "Terrorists might attempt something in London over Christmas for political and practical reasons." Security forces in other countries have raised their own levels of alert. This Christmas, like the last, is a season to be wary. --With reporting by Helen Gibson/London, Elaine Shannon/Washington and Charles P. Wallace/Berlin
...novel?s suspense came from its withholding of the news that [SPOILER ALERT] Scott?s upper-class friend Jack Marlow is the killer. You can?t obscure the star till the end of the movie, so Schoenfeld and Siodmak don?t waste time trying. From the moment Marlow (Franchot Tone) enters Cliff?s dingy digs and mutters, ?What a place. You can feel the rats in the walls,? he has pearly psychopath written all over him. Especially his hands, which poke out of the shadows into harsh light. ?How interesting a pair of hands can be,? Marlow muses, as Cliff...
With students’ security at stake, Harvard cannot delay taking stock of its safety resources. Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd recently announced that the Undergraduate Council’s Safety Committee, which she chairs, plans to review the HUPD’s alert notification system and campus shuttle services. These steps are auspicious, but the University’s efforts must be more extensive, including a thorough appraisal of all the safety resources available on campus. Harvard must investigate and confirm each services actual time of operation and level of use and then make this updated...