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...suspicious packages at Harvard—and hundreds more around the country??kept police, fire and hazardous materials (HAZMAT) crews on their toes...
...recognize that personal exhortations of network executives do not constitute government censorship. The networks make their own decisions about what to carry and what to cut. But in times when “supporting your country?? has a powerful emotional appeal, such self-censorship can be even more dangerous than explicit prohibitions. Our civil society thrives on free discussion and debate, and if newspapers and television networks truly wish to keep our country strong, they must continue to make available to the public whatever is newsworthy...
...beating back fascism and anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Most importantly, it insults the memory of all those who died on Sept. 11, by discouraging young women and men from fighting to avenge the terrorist attack and to prevent future one. The U.S. military, despite its flaws, remains our country??s most selfless institution and the ultimate protector of our civil liberties...
...when war began to seem imminent, many have been concerned that we might repeat the mistakes of the Japanese internment during World War II. It seems, though, that there is a more apt and less hypothetical comparison between America’s relationship to Arabs today and our country??s relationship to Native Americans more than a century...
...that Osama bin Laden sees himself as a unifying figure, rather than a terrorist. One of the reasons our military was able to push this country??s frontier westward was that there was very little organization of the resistance from Native Americans, and what there was was mostly too late. Some tribes made treaties; other tribes tried raids, or open battles, until they were wiped out, but any resistance offered was futile—the expansion of our border was never really checked or slowed until it reached the Pacific Ocean. Though most of bin Laden?...