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...damning than the fact that the agency's legions of highly trained spooks were less successful at infiltrating al-Qaeda than was a Marin County, Calif., 19-year-old named John Walker Lindh. "They didn't see it; they didn't analyze it; they didn't locate it or disrupt it," says a U.S. official."It's just that simple." In Senate hearings last month, CIA Director George Tenet, a Clinton Administration holdover who managed to hold on to his job after 9/11 because he is close to Bush, stubbornly defended the agency's record. "It was not the result...
...single most effective strategy for pre-empting another attack is to hit the attackers first--to disrupt and root out the terrorists who are planning the next strike. That's hard but not impossible. The Sept. 11 hijackers kept low profiles, for example, but didn't plan the attacks in cloistered secrecy. Mohamed Atta and his crew received money from al-Qaeda paymasters through traceable banking channels. Nine of them were singled out for special airport-security screenings on the morning of the attacks, the Washington Post reported, yet managed to slip through. The two hijackers who were...
...still a high school junior, says she is aware of the responsibility the precious medal bestows on her--as a champion, as a representative of the sport. But as she has done throughout her young career, she will refuse to allow this Olympic experience to overwhelm her identity or disrupt her life. Her next goal? High 1500s on the SATs...
...University’s rules should not tolerate or encourage coercive protests. These include, by definition, any time students take over a University building and disrupt the lives of students, Faculty or staff in the name of a political cause...
Without protests that cause some disruption to University life, Harvard administrators have seen no reason even to respond to the arguments against poverty wages. Until janitors and students chose to disrupt the status quo, the only side of the story that most people knew was Harvard’s. Unlike the Harvard administration, janitors do not have dozens of people working full-time to get their message out. All they have is the courage of their conviction that they deserve justice and their willingness to make deep sacrifices to get it. They do not have the power to force Harvard...