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...known Pak Taufik since 1997," Jacob remarks, but says he has "no comment" on the relationship between the two. Taufik says that his friendship with Jacob did not influence the government's plan last year to substantially ease repayment terms for Syamsul Nursalim and other businessmen who owe the country billions of dollars?a plan that was scrapped after a public backlash...
...expect agents to weed through the thousands of terrorist threats made against the U.S., omnipotently knowing which ones to take seriously? I think the FBI does an exceptional job, considering the hand it is dealt every day. Who knows how many times its agents have saved lives? We owe them thanks, not blame. ENOCH BASNETT Corsicana, Texas
...civilians by actors who aren't part of a nation's formal machinery of state. Within that field, it's possible to identify two subcategories. "Political" terrorists have an identifiable goal, which may be precisely that of mainstream politicians. "Millenarian" terrorists are different. They have no political agenda and owe their allegiance not to any institutions or geographical expressions on earth but to a higher authority in heaven. The classic examples of the first are the armed wings of national liberation movements, like the Irish Republican Army, Israel's Stern Gang and Umkhonto We Sizwe, the military...
Alex Sowma, 18, is looking for money-making ventures, possibly in real estate, but for now works at a pizza-delivery call center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has no plans for college. "At the end of four years, I don't want to owe an institution upwards of $50,000 and not have a guaranteed job," he says...
...Here is where, I suppose, I should tell you whether to watch the video. But I won?t. We feel compelled to cast judgments about viewing images of terror because terrorism seeks to make us feel powerless, and taking an absolutist stance - Don?t look at that! You owe it to the dead to look at that! - is a way of reasserting control. To say that there is some value in looking, but no shame in averting your eyes, places one in that squishy gray area in which we have to live. Having watched the video, am I better informed...