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Last week's advisory stemmed from a flurry of suspicious chattering among al-Qaeda operatives intercepted by the U.S. and its spook friends over the past few days. Some of the noise pointed to a blanket directive issued by bin Laden to kill Americans at will without waiting for approval from the top; the fact that it is now the runup to the holy month of Ramadan only heightened authorities' suspicions...
...that Tecumseh High School’s choir suffers from a significant drug problem, or that illegal drugs pose a heightened risk of injury to the singers. Although subsequent decisions by appeals courts have tried to expand this decision, the Court should uphold its previous standard and prevent the blanket use of drug tests in all extracurricular activities...
...Last week's advisory stemmed from a flurry of suspicious chattering among al-Qaeda operatives intercepted by the U.S. and its spook friends over the past few days. Some of the noise pointed to a blanket directive issued by bin Laden to kill Americans at will without waiting for approval from the top; the fact that it is now the runup to the holy month of Ramadan only heightened authorities' suspicions...
...officials about the tenacity of the Taliban and dim prospects for snaring Bin Laden. Dublin's Irish Independent suggests the media missed the real story in last weekend's special forces raid at Kandahar, which the paper suggests encountered far heavier resistance than had been expected. "There was blanket and mainly adulatory media coverage on both sides of the Atlantic with the prognosis that the ground war had begun," the Independent writes. "But, instead, what happened last weekend made US and British planners at central command in Tampa, Florida, reappraise the military campaign, and continue with air strikes rather than...
...broaden and shrink the context of one's life simultaneously. Because of Sept. 11, one is made jarringly aware of living in the wider world, and one's private vanities are properly discarded. At the same time, because that wider world means menace, one is also spooked into blanket-over-the-head thinking. Should I sit in a crowd at a ball game? Send the kids to school? Go down to the kitchen...