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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...
...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...
...goes without saying that Amélie has a firm grasp of the absurd. We meet Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) through a voiced-over recap of her likes and dislikes; the former category includes dipping her hand in barrels of grain and cracking the fine crust of a crème brûlée with a teaspoon. Home-schooled by neurotic, hugging-averse parents, she grows up painfully shy and enclosed in her own fantasy world. Unfortunately, her adult life doesn’t seem much better. She works as a waitress in a quintessentially Parisian...
...word. It is a word that conjures up images of a bygone era, a word that sends chills of fond nostalgia down the backs of wizened old ladies. It is a world that we have difficulty recreating simply because today, we confuse glamour with glitter. The Museum of Fine Arts’ (MFA) new exhibit The Look; Images of Glamour and Style transports the viewer back to a time when elegance was tantamount to perfection and subtlety was more important than show. The exhibit, which features the photography of George Hoynigen-Huene and Horst P. Horst, two of the most...
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