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...Laden tape provided a chilling context for the steady stream of intelligence chatter that the CIA has picked up in the past three weeks, much like what it saw before Sept. 11, 2001. More suspicious phone calls and more reports from field agents suggested al-Qaeda suspects appeared to be on the move. "There's more activity on the communications circuits used by dirty guys," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. "There are more cryptic conversations by people making plans to travel." The FBI's graphic warning of "spectacular" attacks causing "mass casualties, severe damage to the U.S. economy...
Minting a new emotional condition is tricky, but Heller may be on to something. Forty years ago, occupational therapists recognized a similar condition in hyperactive children called tactile defensiveness. Heller expands on that in the context of today's hyperstimulating world. She believes that up to 15% of adults may suffer from some form of sensory defensiveness. One person avoids driving at night because he can't tolerate headlights reflecting in his rearview mirror. Another can't relax until she washes a musty-smelling dishrag in the next room. Says Heller: "Sensory defensiveness is when your reaction to stimuli starts...
...Anytime somebody says you don’t belong somewhere, it bothers me regardless of what the context is,” Morris says. “I don’t feel their opinion matters. A lot of people don’t understand the level of commitment that any sport takes, and in the case of our sport it’s a little higher than most. But anytime you work so hard and so long just to be out there and people take away from that, it’s going to hurt...
...other concentrations, the formulation of a dramatic arts concentration must be a carefully planned process that occurs over a few years and includes the input of students, faculty and members of theater departments from outside Harvard. Practically, the realization of a dramatic arts department would best occur in the context of the ongoing curricular review. The attainment of such a concentration would sufficiently provide drama-oriented students with the appropriate resources and thus benefit Harvard academics, theater and the community at large...
Your editorial (“Bestowing An Undue Honor,” Nov. 21) was a compelling and sensible refutation of the reborn invitation to poet Tom Paulin. Claims that Paulin’s remarks, advocating violence and murder against Israelis, were misconstrued or taken out of context are unpersuasive. Let’s hear Paulin say, without ambiguity or wiggle-wobble, what he thinks should be done to bring peace to the Middle East...