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Maybe it was just a coincidence that Attorney General John Ashcroft told us there could be thousands of al-Qaeda sleepers lying in wait among us. But then maybe it wasn't. If the war against terrorism drags on--if there are more attacks--will people find themselves feeling helpless once again in the face of an elusive enemy who hits and runs and can't be found? Or does the threat become a blessing, keeping people united against a common danger and forgiving of leaders who face challenges greater than figuring out how stock-option grants should be handled...
...Maybe it was just a coincidence that Attorney General John Ashcroft told us there could be thousands of al-Qaeda sleepers lying in wait among us. But then maybe it wasn't. If the war against terrorism drags on-if there are more attacks-will people find themselves feeling helpless once again in the face of an elusive enemy who hits and runs and can't be found? Or does the threat become a blessing, keeping people united against a common danger and forgiving of leaders who face challenges greater than figuring out how stock-option grants should be handled...
...feel very strongly that we send a message right now to [U.S. Attorney General] John Ashcroft and others that we oppose terrorism but we also support our civil liberties,” said councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87, who co-sponsored the resolution...
Although Cruise and Spielberg, friends for two decades, have been developing the script since 1999, the movie turns out to be topical, a celluloid mirror of current events. Jointly financed by DreamWorks and Fox, it opens amid controversy over Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to put a terrorism suspect in military detention. Many have noted the similarity between the movie's idea of Precrime and the legal ramifications of arresting but not charging suspected terrorists...
...high-IQ fun of Minority Report--Spielberg's sharpest, brawniest, most bustling entertainment since Raiders of the Lost Ark and the finest of the season's action epics--is its mix of future and retro. Lamar Burgess (Max von Sydow), who might be a more benign John Ashcroft, and his protege John Anderton (Tom Cruise) run a system that prevents murders by arresting people before they commit them. Yet the Precrime apparatus is so goofily anach-ronistic--three young mind readers floating in a tank and billiard balls rolling through plastic tubes--that your brilliant, mad old uncle could have...