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That may be fine for lots of people who would rather be treated as adults than as children and be left to make up their own minds about how to react to government warnings. But with no solid information to divulge about the terrorists' possible methods, targets or timing, Washington risked either crying wolf one time too many or sending a nation from low-grade anxiety into full-blown panic. As a retired FBI counterterrorism official put it, "If you start warning about everything you hear, you become part of the terror, as opposed to part of the solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measuring The Threat | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

Although there is no solid evidence to support the point, officials also stress that such public advisories could act, and may have already acted, as a deterrent against future attacks. "It's a difficult and fine line we walk," Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge said at a briefing last week. "But I think America understands, and hopefully appreciates, that when there's that kind of information available to us, we just share it, incomplete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measuring The Threat | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...about people who are either uplifted by love or twisted by its lack and one where the director has so much to say and show that he can't keep his images still. You could get drunk, or ill, on the high dose of whimsy in Amelie. That's fine--too many European movies suffer from emotional constipation and camera anomie. Jeunet travels the road of excess, telling dozens of peripheral tales, cueing American tunes from the '40s to play in a '90s Paris cafe, working in whatever style suits the moment, letting a key in Amelie's pocket radiate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Affairs Of The Heart: Audrey Tautao | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...Jang sealed off the newsroom as an "anthrax zone," had it disinfected and put 80 exposed staff on antibiotics. None of them has shown signs of anthrax infection, including the business reporter who received the powder-laden envelope. "I am fine," he told TIME, asking that his name not be publicized. "But I am still wondering with whom I had such an enmity that I was sent this powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some More Spores? | 11/11/2001 | See Source »

Rose left last week’s contest against Columbia early with a stinger, but Murphy said he will be fine for tomorrow’s game...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Preps for Penn | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

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