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This attitude stands in marked contrast to the sense of skepticism, even resignation, with which the general public has greeted the periodic raising and lowering of the terror-alert levels. Especially worrisome is the extent to which the public appears willing to second-guess official directives. According to a Columbia University study released in August 2003, 90% of Americans polled said they would not evacuate their homes in a time of crisis based only on a government order to do so. Public-health officials are increasingly worried that weak public confidence in official guidance will undermine their efforts to carry...
...Judith H. Kidd wrote to Editor of the Salient Travis R. Kavulla ’06-’07, that the members of the Salient should be aware of potential threats in response to the publication of the cartoons. (See story page A3) “Please be alert to the possibility that some segments of the campus and surrounding communities may be sufficiently upset by the publication of the cartoons that they may become dangerous,” Kidd wrote. Beyond her warning, neither the Salient nor its staff faced reprimands from Harvard officials as a result...
...favorite head-scratcher occurs when I open a Hotmail message. I read down until I see a link to download the rest of the message. I click it, and the link generates this alert: "Message will download next time you connect and receive e-mail." Excuse me? I want the rest of the message now! It's remedied fairly quickly by a "Send/Receive," but it's a good example of the digital red tape you might encounter...
...Please be alert to the possibility that some segments of the campus and surrounding communities may be sufficiently upset by the publication of the cartoons that they may become dangerous,” she wrote yesterday in an e-mail obtained by The Crimson...
...United Nations Security Council. Tehran’s ambiguity and unending flip-flops on Russia’s proposal to enrich uranium outside Iranian territory, as well as its destruction of the United Nations protective seals on enrichment facilities in sites like Natanz, have rightly put the world on alert. The Guardian Council that runs Iran does not represent the interests or desires of the Iranian people, and its ever-escalating rhetoric presents an unacceptable threat to global stability. Recently “elected” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a self-proclaimed religious fundamentalist who publicly denies the Holocaust...