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This attitude stands in marked contrast to the sense of skepticism, even resignation, with which the general public has greeted the periodic raising and lowering of the terror-alert levels. Especially worrisome is the extent to which the public appears willing to second-guess official directives. According to a Columbia University study released in August 2003, 90% of Americans polled said they would not evacuate their homes in a time of crisis based only on a government order to do so. Public-health officials are increasingly worried that weak public confidence in official guidance will undermine their efforts to carry...
...real roots—and the full extent—of the Faculty’s continued discontent with the president are only now becoming clear...
...good, the ultimate form of playground teasing, it’s easy to see why the nicknamed might get disgruntled.But if a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, why do we care? Apparently our identities lie inside, not by the name itself. To an extent, it’s true. We often hope that children with truly unfortunate names will turn out cool to make the name have less of an impact. Though naming also ties us to the identities of other—if you once knew someone named “Bob?...
...College students never know the extent of their own power,” Jones said, adding that students should always think about cultivating long-range organizational relationships in public service matters and use the resources uniquely available to them at Harvard...
What the hunting furor did, beyond occupying the airwaves for a week and stalling what momentum the President may have had, was expose in the most public way yet the extent to which Cheney runs an independent operation and raise the question of how much the White House can control him--or wants to. Cheney makes his own rules; he decides what intelligence matters, what secrets are worth keeping and what force is worth using, and he defends his positions with a breathtaking indifference to consequences and to complaint from those who disagree. He went off to spend a relaxing...