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...decade ago, a staggering $127,000 was embezzled by two Harvard students, Charles K. Lee ‘93 and David G. Sword ‘93. So much money and fame had turned EWC into a target for theft, an event that has prompted the organization to conduct yearly financial audits...
...proud of its mayor. Rudolph W. Giuliani has been a most stirring and impressive leader in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the city’s World Trade Center. Both political leaders and private citizens have expressed great admiration for the mayor’s conduct in the weeks since the attack, and last week this page expressed its regret that the mayor will not be able to run for a third term in the upcoming election...
...ability to wage terrifying war on Afghanistan. There are already several hundred American warplanes in the region, based in Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and aboard two aircraft carriers, the U.S.S. Carl Vinson and the U.S.S. Enterprise. Washington wants to conduct the air war from a new command center just outside Riyadh, but the Saudis are balking. (If the past is any guide, the U.S. will eventually get its way.) Another pair of carriers, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, could be ready to attack within a week. The Pentagon and the State Department have arranged for basing...
Because the Koran was revealed in the context of an all-out war, several passages deal with the conduct of armed struggle. Warfare was a desperate business on the Arabian Peninsula. A chieftain was not expected to spare survivors after a battle, and some of the Koranic injunctions seem to share this spirit. Muslims are ordered by God to "slay [enemies] wherever you find them!" (4: 89). Extremists such as Osama bin Laden like to quote such verses but do so selectively. They do not include the exhortations to peace, which in almost every case follow these more ferocious passages...
...proposed measures include strengthening the government’s power to wiretap telephones and to conduct search and seizure operations, as well as a proposal that would require everyone in the United States to carry identity cards. These so-called “smart cards” could contain travel logs or even fingerprinting information. Supposedly the government would use these identity cards to track suspected terrorists within the United States...