Word: extentions
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...scare America's opinion makers and weaken our resolve for war. It's as plausible a strategy as any. It's also almost certain not only to fail but to backfire. For it to work, you have to assume that the media will support the war to the extent that its members personally feel safe from terrorism. In fact, exactly the opposite is true. The Sept. 11 attacks hit New York and Washington, killing thousands in exactly the cities where the most powerful journalists and their bosses live...
...succeed in this war, the extent to which its allies in the Islamic world are prepared to contribute will be an essential factor. Bin Laden’s cause, like most fundamentalist ideals, greatly relies on its impact on people’s minds: defeating the religious raison d’etre of his cause will surely contribute to the fall of his terrorist empire. If the American administration is capable of convincing the Islamic governments and the general public of the validity of its cause, and succeeds in doing so, then this other war, this mental war, will...
Working on the organisimal side of biology, Pellegrino University Research Professor Edward O. Wilson described his efforts to learn the full extent of biological diversity...
...extent that college is not about work, it’s merely a social club. If this is what humanities departments want to turn into, let them say so fortrightly. Mansfield’s leaking of a private communication is personally indefensible, but if it leads to an honest discussion of this question, it might end up having a positive effect...
...view of the world patently clear by coupling a passage from Thucydides with a series of photographs from the war in Kosovo. The passage Ristelhueber quotes represents Thucydides' idea that conflict is inevitable and that people will by nature always abuse other people for their own gain to whatever extent they can. Her use of this passage is telling evidence of the general theme in Ristelhueber's work of a resigned, almost defeatist approach to the horrible things we humans do to each other...