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...during the long years of a terrorist prosecution, the trickle of foreign informants will dry up. That would be a situation the U.S. could ill afford. Typically, terrorist groups comprise people bound by geography, political injury, even bloodlines. Since U.S. agencies find it almost impossible to penetrate such tight-knit networks, they must rely on defectors for the information they need to help pre-empt attacks and prosecute known terrorists...
...much of a win-win situation 150 miles away in the town of Cordova, a tight-knit community on Prince William Sound of some 2,000 fishermen, artists and Eyak natives. "There may be a miniboom in Anchorage, but there is a major bust still going on in Cordova," says Torie Baker, a board member of the Cordova District Fishermen United. This year, for the second spring in a row, the town's 900 fishermen set out for herring and came / up empty; normally they would haul a catch worth somewhere around $10 million. Yes, a smattering of herring...
...Throbbing has the bracketed subtitle "Because Obscenity Begins at Home," yet even without this, Vogel's mission would be clear. She attempts to knit the splintering of the American family to the degradation of women in the porn industry...
...just that the founders of Third Millennium know how to use the media for their ends. They are the media. a tight-knit, well-connected bunch, they hail from publications like The Wall Street Journal and the now-defunct Spy magazine. Seven of the first 20 members were Lukefahr's fellow editors at the twentysomething journal Diversity and Division.And co-founder Douglas Kennedy, a former MTV reporter, has been a lightning rod for attention because...
Then again, we're not Harvard or Boston either. Harvard has dorms like Wigglesworth. Although "Canaday offers it residents something that other dorms can't...with its six entryways, Canaday forms its own close-knit community," it can't top Wigglesworth. Hell, we've only got 11 entryways ourselves. Our beautifully constructed and extremely long dormitory is about a hundred years old and gets to guard the South Yard form invasion by Massachusetts Avenue...