Word: alertness
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...people who teach German history are gone,” he says. Some concentrators, such as Michael M. Sutton ’05, note that with fewer professors comes a dramatic decrease in the variety of the department. “It’s impossible to stay alert when you’re forced to listen to a lecture from the same morbidly obese white man with a suspect comb-over for three different classes,” he says. “You would think for 40 Gs a year I could get a little variety...
This week, the Bush administration decided to lower the terror alert level to “yellow” from “orange.” “Orange” had been the status since the Sept. 11 anniversary saw a flurry of intelligence activity. Prior to the anniversary, the level had not been changed from its initial “yellow” status...
...moment, al-Faruq's interrogators relayed his revelations to the CIA's Counterterrorism Center in Langley, Va. Al-Faruq's story tracked with several recent intelligence reports from Southeast Asia about an increase in suspicious activities near American embassies. A day later the U.S. issued its code-orange terror alert. Al-Faruq's threatened attacks never occurred...
Cohen, who was the only Republican chosen to be a part of Bill Clinton’s Cabinet, said America has helped spread stability in the world by having its military “forward-deployed”— on the alert around the world to prevent situations that threaten peace...
...then there is the possibility of a nuclear showdown with Iraq, which the Bush Administration has zeroed in on to make urgent the need for war. In his two red-alert speeches late last month, Vice President Dick Cheney flatly warned that Saddam would acquire an A-bomb "fairly soon." With it, he said, Saddam could "seek domination of the entire Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world's energy supply, directly threaten America's friends and subject the U.S. to nuclear blackmail...