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...become nosy and suspicious. There is no such thing in Israel as an unattended package. If someone leaves a bag behind, within minutes a citizen alerts the police, who clear the area until the bomb squad can send in a robot to blow it up. This is such a common scene in Israeli cities that it doesn't even draw a crowd. Israelis tend to be acutely aware of who is around them. They search faces and notice odd behavior--for instance, a man wearing a heavy jacket in summertime. That kind of vigilance has paid off on occasion, thwarting...
...fight. We could better serve the country by working in labs or running businesses, than by fighting on the front lines. But can 31 percent of the student body really believe that, by virtue of being educated here, our lives are more precious than those of our fellow citizens? Justifications about the supposed value of a Harvard-educated citizen serve only to obfuscate the truth. Supporting war while refusing to fight creates and perpetuates inequality in our society. We think we are too valuable, so instead we send the poor, the uneducated and the disenfranchised...
...Muslim, an American and a citizen of the world, I am deeply repelled and saddened by these barbarous attacks, which hurt all people who value human life, regardless of their background or beliefs. I am also outraged anyone could claim that such cold-blooded and cowardly acts were religious in purpose; they are certainly not sanctioned by Islam. When I drove home from Washington and saw firsthand the devastation at the Pentagon, I could not help crying and wondering what the world was coming to. ATHAR A. PIRZADA Springfield...
...Life expectancy of an Afghan citizen...
...percent, envisioned a long war with many casualties but with an eventual U.S. victory. On the homefront, Americans strong favor increased vigilance. A full 68 percent favor increased governmental wire-tapping authority, 55 percent favor email monitoring. Sixty-one percent would allow the federal government to jail any non-citizen terrorist suspect without a hearing; 59 percent favor holding suspects without bail for unlimited amounts of time. And 31 percent would allow the internment in camps of Arabs who are U.S. citizens...