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...over twenty floors of the Marriot down the road). Attendance was down this year - from 200,000 to around 125,000. Perhaps it was fear of flying. Perhaps it was the rumor that terrorists were planning to release smallpox at the convention. Perhaps it was the metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs that patrolled every entrance and made getting inside just as much of a crowded nightmare as actually being inside. Or perhaps it was the growing realization that the whole event is as ridiculous an excuse for a paid vacation as a corporate retreat in Maui...
Let’s start with the much-praised “smart bombs.” In theory, even if a target is in a residential neighborhood, a smart bomb can annihilate it with limited risk to the surrounding area. In practice, however, “smart bombs” are only 60 percent accurate, according to statistics compiled by the Pentagon during the Gulf War. Perhaps this is satisfactory performance by military standards, but it means that for every 1,000 bombs dropped, 400 will go astray and land in schools, hospitals and homes. And this estimate assumes...
...Afghanis have a hard time believing that this is not a war against them, especially as bombs shower their villages. Try telling Shaida Ahmed, 14, that the bomb that killed her mother was meant for Osama bin Laden. The Times of London reported that U.S. planes bombed Shaida’s village on the evening of Oct. 22, killing 17, presumably by mistake. Villagers of Chowker Karez claim that neither the Taliban nor bin Laden has any association with their village—a claim that human rights investigators have verified...
...this struggle of good versus evil, the only thing separating the good guys from the bad are good intentions. We do not intend to bomb civilians, but we do it. We do not intend to starve millions of people, but we do it. We do not intend to make war on Muslims, but we do it. One hopes the recent successes of the Northern Alliance will prompt Washington to stop trampling on a country that has already been trampled on by 25 years of warfare. Otherwise, we will be the most benevolent perpetrators of genocide history has ever known...
...time expired, Hoffman launched a last-ditch bomb from midfield towards a cluster of Harvard and Penn players near the endzone. Instead of another miracle for the Quakers, sophomore linebacker Dante Balestracci deflected the ball harmlessly away at the five-yard line to seal the victory for the Crimson...