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...Moussaoui, who made a brief court appearance Wednesday, will be arraigned Jan. 2 in Alexandria, Va. His attorneys did not request bail for him today. He's charged with conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism, aircraft piracy, destruction of aircraft, use of weapons of mass destruction, murder of U.S. employees and destruction of U.S. property...
...past, suicide bombings were controversial among Palestinians. In early 1996, only 20% of Palestinians supported the practice. Today about 70% do. At one time, to get bombers to commit, the militant groups would put recruits through intensive, months-long religious tutoring that amounted to brainwashing. Now, Hamas and Islamic Jihad are swamped with volunteers who need little indoctrination...
...courage to think about the unthinkable, and Jessica Stern has it. A lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, Stern studies those who kill innocents for political gain. While others debate theories of terrorism from the safety of the ivory tower, Stern travels the world to meet those who actually commit the acts...
...bomb Afghan cities out of a need for revenge. The foreigners in the Arab al-Qaeda forces infested Afghanistan in order to be trained to commit terrorist acts; they are not innocents. The innocents were those people who died in New York City, Washington and western Pennsylvania. Compassion is always preferable to revenge, but true compassion demands justice. THOMAS KRAEMER Woodbury...
...administration does not commit to a living wage floor that rises along with the cost of living, the immense power imbalance between Harvard and the workers who maintain the University will return poverty to our campus within a few years. And in a few more years, its cure will be even more difficult to attain. The HCECP and the Harvard administration cannot diffuse our moral indignation by paying the community lip service with short-term fixes that force it to repeat the same battles every few years...