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Before St. Lawrence could even mount a real challenge to Harvard, the game was out of reach...
...deadly new turn. As a U.S. intelligence official notes, the absence of suicide bombers in Madrid is a sobering development. "You don't have to kill yourself to blow something up," this official says. Since suicide bombers are a finite resource, terrorists could be more inspired than ever to mount devastating attacks by remote control. In other words, Madrid rolled out an innovation that other terrorists will surely copy, says Tarine Fairman, who retired last month as a top international counterterrorism agent at the FBI. "They've introduced a technique that we knew about and were concerned about," he warns...
...millions mourned in the streets of Madrid, counterterrorism officials around the world struggled to analyze the implications of the attacks for their own cities. None of the lessons are comforting. If the assaults were not by al-Qaeda, it means that other groups think they have to mount an attack that slaughters hundreds of innocents to get attention. If those responsible for the outrage in Madrid were not Osama bin Laden's foot soldiers, others have learned that such attacks are not very difficult to stage. Equally troublesome, however, is the possibility that 3/11 was an al-Qaeda--related attack...
...happened that morning—a moment of silence at the beginning of class, flags at half-mast, something. At least at Harvard, we had no moment of silence, no mention of the tragedy, no American flag at half-mast. Only Schoenhof’s, the foreign bookstore on Mount Auburn St., made a gesture by draping their Spanish flag at half-mast. So much for international community—only a foreign bookstore had taken the time to acknowledge 200 dead...
This was a social event for men only, but it was not affiliated with a mansion on or near Mount Auburn Street. The club holding the soiree was Delta Upsilon (DU), one of Harvard’s five fraternities...