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...World Trade Center. Now the U.S. has destroyed al-Qaeda's training camps and undermined bin Laden's capacity to lead. And yet the Sept. 11 hijackings were years in the making--which means bin Laden could have ordered up another, more lethal attack before his world came apart. "We were overwhelmingly defensive in our orientation before Sept. 11," Admiral Dennis Blair, the head of the U.S.'s Pacific Command, told TIME. "Now we've gone on the offensive." The big question is whether we did so in time...
...Explosive-ordnance-disposal experts with the Joint Special Operations Command are on call to fly in and assist the scientists in taking apart anything they find, but so far, NEST has turned up nothing in the searches. Administration officials admit that, just like putting sky marshals on airliners to foil potential hijackers, sending the NEST teams out is a shot in the dark. "But it's better than having them sitting at home doing nothing," says...
...When you’ve written a few [books]—I think Shock is my 23rd—you begin to create your characters for the story,” he says. “What I try to do, and what I think sets my books apart from, if you will, the best-selling genre, is that the stories tend to be quite character-driven. I create the personalities to make the story happen...
Kaitlin, a sophomore in Pforzheimer House who was referred to pejoratively in the diary, also found out about the online journal. “I was just aghast,” she says. “Apart from the insults, it was just strange, because I’d see [Jane] in the dining hall and ask her about her [spring] break, but I already knew. I was addicted to her diary. I would come home, and this would be a daily ritual of her saying things about...
Undergraduate RAs perform a job in the most fundamental sense of the word. On top of their responsibilities as students, RAs live apart from their peers in dorms among underclass students, providing what amounts to roughly 20 hours a week of service. They are responsible for overseeing the well-being of students, providing guidance, keeping drunk students in order, and even mopping up after rowdy parties...