Word: havoc
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sept. 11, turned out to be immensely potent. Rather than rogue states shooting missiles, he writes, senior intelligence analysts have said that America’s greatest danger in the coming years would come from terrorists, who could walk into an American city, any American city, and wreak havoc. “Foreign policy was not high on the political agenda,” he says, “primarily because whatever the forces that might threaten the future of this country were, they were not yet visible.” They are visible now, and Halberstam?...
...much from us,” a staff member told me. “It’s us.” Many Harvard students have set impossibly high standards for themselves, and the gauntlet of inevitable rejections that Harvard presents can—does—wreak havoc on them. First comes first-year orientation programs, then freshman seminars, maybe honors-only concentrations, definitely seminars and conference courses. Worse are the extracurriculars: “comping” the Advocate, the Crimson, or the Lampoon; the arduous Let’s Go applications and interviews; some PBHA programs...
...know about the death wrought by religion, the divisive, imperial-laden turns it can take, the hatred it can pull out of the mouth of love. Much the same I could sayunpopular as it is to do soabout the United States of America, a nation that has wreaked havoc on other nations in the name of peace and freedom and justice. Something about church and state, their ever-incomplete separation (In God We Trust and so on), compelled me however to bring them together, intimately and inadequately, for an examination that is very much also a self-examination...
...vagabonds who nightly make a mockery of their first course. While frequenting salad bars for their leafy greens and balsalmic, diners oft-times leave their trays unattended in search of far-away items. Not only does this salad bar abandonment disrupt the rhythm of the line, it also reeks havoc on your salad-making experience. How can you properly pay heed to the world of mandarin oranges and feta cheese while worrying about the well-being of the beef barley soup you have left behind? The salad-making experience is sacred and unclaimed trays will only disrupt others dining experience...
Many Americans have long supported Israel’s response to terrorism from a totally detached perspective. We are no longer removed from the terror. It has invaded our shores and wreaked havoc on our way of life. Now is the time for us to adopt the methods of our ally and stamp out terrorists in a merciless fashion. I think Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) said it best: “Americans know now that we are at war, and will make the sacrifices and show the resolve necessary to prevail. I say to our enemies...