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Still, there are some major differences between the FCIC and the 9/11 commission. The FCIC does not have to deal with a President and an Administration that was in power when the event happened, though the Obama team will probably try to deter any criticism of how the current President responded to the crisis. Another major difference is that most of the major actors in the financial crisis are U.S. citizens, making it easier for the FCIC to subpoena, which Angelides has said he will do, to question the people at the heart of the crisis...
However, there had been no riot police or civilian militia to deter one large gathering. On Wednesday, Dec. 30, in Tehran's Revolution Square, firebrand pro-government cleric Ahmad Alamolhoda stood before a large pro-government rally and tried to pump it up with language little short of an incitement to civil war. "Enemies of the leader, according to the Koran, belong to the party of Satan," Alamolhoda declared. "Our war in the world is war against the opponents of the rule of the Supreme Leader...
...Aviation Administration and the North American Defense Command agreed to attend the world's first "serious" international UFO conference to hear new evidence, but after a self-proclaimed "abductee" reneged on his promise to take a polygraph test, the federal attendees left the gathering, skepticism intact. That didn't deter conference organizer Allen Hynek, founder of the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Ill., and a tireless campaigner to legitimize the field of "UFOlogy." "We need to stop arguing the existence of eggs and get down to cooking the omelet," he told TIME that year. (See the mankind's greatest...
...several students expressed only mild concern regarding the H1N1 pandemic, stating that it would not deter them from travelling...
...presents a very difficult set of questions about how do you balance the traditional law-enforcement approach to deal with those threats - which is typically how we've dealt with those things in the past - with the reality that you're dealing with people that are much harder to deter," Burck says. (See TIME's cover story on the Fort Hood massacre...