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...international student of Middle Eastern descent at the Harvard Business School (HBS) said yesterday that he was interviewed by the the FBI Tuesday as part of its inquiry into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, adding Harvard to the list of over 200 colleges across the country that the FBI has canvassed in its the course of its ongoing investigation...
...remember flying into New York at about this time last year, just before the Subway Series between the Mets and the Yanks was set to begin. I remember paying little attention to Lower Manhattan, instead zeroing in on Shea Stadium during the descent and feeling an indescribable surge of electricity and anticipation of the coming games...
...appalled that 31% of those surveyed in a TIME/CNN poll favored holding American citizens in camps solely because they happen to be of Arab descent [AMERICA ON GUARD, Oct. 8]. That is blatant racism at its worst! Is the U.S. to become the next Nazi Germany? The Constitution guarantees us certain rights, such as a speedy trial, security from unreasonable searches and seizures and so forth. We cannot allow terrorists--or our own government--to take away those rights. If that happens, the terrorists win. EDUARDO GONZALES Bailey, Colo...
...alienation and the perception that the world is against them that nurture bitterness among those who resort to terrorism. Confusion and anger against the global order and its only superpower have been brought about by the failure of the Muslim world to address two crucial issues: Afghanistan's descent into chaos and anarchy as a result of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent rise of the Taliban, and the suffering inflicted on the Muslim masses in Iraq by its dictator as well as by sanctions imposed on that long-suffering nation...
Require U.S. citizens of Arab descent to carry an identification card issued by the Federal Government...