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...Sept. 29 article, Jessica E. Stern, a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, and University of Michigan Adjunct Professor Scott Atran investigate the perpetually expanding world of cyber terrorism. They contend that modern technology, particularly the Internet, provides terrorists with both the means and the motivation to strike their targets. These websites, which spring up by the dozens, allow for instant communication among insurgents and further their potential to create death and destruction...
...victims of Hurricane Katrina was soul-stirring. Judging by the many natural disasters the world has recently witnessed, one can only conclude that global warming is taking a heavy toll on the earth. For those of us who live in developing nations like India?where people have to contend with ill-equipped civil authorities during natural disasters?it was a stupefying revelation that the U.S. has the same problems in coping with nature's fury. Perhaps the world's richest nation should channel its plentiful resources into serving its people rather than pursuing military goals. Nalini Vijayaraghavan Madras, India...
Following quickly on the heels of another aeronautical thriller, “Red Eye,” “Flightplan” represents a new incarnation of the in-flight thriller, one that must contend with the public’s knee-jerk connections to recent historical realities. But “Flightplan” works so well precisely because it refuses to get bogged down in prevailing American biases...
...victims of Hurricane Katrina was soul stirring. Judging by the many natural disasters the world has recently witnessed, one can only conclude that global warming is taking a heavy toll on the earth. For those of us who live in developing nations like India - where people have to contend with ill-equipped civil authorities during natural disasters - it was a stupefying revelation that the U.S. has the same problems in coping with nature's fury. Perhaps the world's richest nation should channel its plentiful resources into serving its people rather than pursuing military goals. Nalini Vijayaraghavan Madras, India...
...safely dispense with the fear-mongering over the voting process if you believe the will of the people has already been exercised and 56 percent of the voters favor same-sex “marriage,” as you contend. However, it is worth noting that there has not yet been a vote on marriage itself by the people or the Legislature. The Travaglini-Lees compromise foreclosed any opportunity for the constitutional convention to vote on an amendment relating to marriage only...