Word: alertness
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...famous "arrogance of power" is cross-grained, and self-subverted. The world might learn to be more alert to another kind, the arrogance of powerlessness--which may take the form of aggressive exaltation suffused with God's righteous, annihilating power. What is more arrogant than a vocabulary of "infidel," "jihad" and "fatwa"? More arrogant than the totalitarian conceit that Allah obliges "the faithful" to wage vicious holy war against the airplanes and office buildings of the ungodly? What is more arrogant, or in worse taste, than hijack heroes' sleazy dreams of paradise, with 72 virgins at the disposal of each...
...decided to stop sending out threat warnings to put the nation on the alert - "How could we be on higher alert than we are?" says one agent. But privately, the agency remains intensely worried about Al Qaeda schemes poised to erupt like fireworks around the sacred moment of Al-Qadr, the Night of Power, when Mohammed received the first words of the Koran from Allah. The precise date of the Night of Power, or Night of Destiny, changes from year to year, but it is celebrated during the last ten days of the Muslim holy month or Ramadan, which...
...doing all we can: Physicians have been told what to look for, and medical authorities in affected areas are on alert. We?re also learning that even if people do inhale anthrax, they can be successfully treated if the symptoms are caught early on. That should be comforting to everyone...
...with that in mind have tracked more than 300 of the letters that passed through the Trenton, New Jersey mail processing facility at the same instant as the contaminated letters made their way to Capitol Hill. Authorities in the areas that should have received the letters are on alert for anthrax symptoms, but thus far haven?t seen any new cases. No word yet on whether officials will try to track down the rest of the letters that may have come in contact with the Senators? letters - which could number in the tens of thousands...
...famous "arrogance of power" is cross-grained, and self-subverted. The world might learn to be more alert to another kind, the arrogance of powerlessness - which may take the form of aggressive exaltation suffused with God's righteous, annihilating power. What is more arrogant than a vocabulary of "infidel," "jihad" and "fatwa"? More arrogant than the totalitarian conceit that Allah obliges "the faithful" to wage vicious holy war against the airplanes and office buildings of the ungodly? What is more arrogant, or in worse taste, than hijack heroes' sleazy dreams of paradise, with 72 virgins at the disposal of each...