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...zone where Osama bin Laden makes his home today. It is Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban that has provided a safe haven for Osama bin Laden and allowed him to set up his terrorist training camps. And although there was probably very little America could have done to curb Osama bin Laden’s fanatical beliefs, Washington had a plethora of opportunities to rein in Afghanistan from the fringes of global isolation and prevent terrorism from taking root in this war-ravaged country...
...times like these when we must ask ourselves how much freedom we are willing to give up in the name of public safety. In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, top lawmakers are considering numerous ways to curb future terrorist plots against the United States. Though these proposals are well-intentioned, many of them threaten our civil rights...
Architect Bob Shelton had his foot in a cast; he'd broken it falling off a curb two weeks ago. He heard the explosion of the first plane hitting the north tower from his 56th-floor office in the south tower. As he made his way down the stairwell, his building came under attack as well. "You could hear the building cracking. It sounded like when you have a bunch of spaghetti, and you break it in half to boil it." Shelton knew that what he was hearing was bad. "It was structural failure," Shelton says. "Once a building like...
...assertion unheard of amongst most junkies. Cross recounts Cobain’s mentions to friends about wishing to regularly use—not just try—heroin. Wishing to have control over his body and the stomach troubles that plagued him, Cobain felt that the drug would curb his physical suffering. The central theme of Heavier—Cobain’s desire for control—is thus recapitulated by Cross’s harrowing anecdotes regarding of Cobain’s continuous struggle with heroin and his attempts to control his intake of the drug...
...bomb Afghanistan to oblivion, we will make other small, impoverished countries fear and hate us even more strongly. We already know that the retributive policy pursued in Israel has only increased the terrorists’ resolve and undermined the power of the only people who can curb terrorism—the governments of the countries who harbor them...