Word: perilousness
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...jail to protect your source, if necessary. If you do not adhere to these tribal rules, other potential sources will surely notice and you will be considered unreliable. It is not an elegant system--and yes, there are exceptions to the rules (on matters of imminent national or individual peril)--but it is a bedrock principle of the freest and fairest press in the world. And so I disagree with the decision of Norman Pearlstine, the editor-in-chief of Time Inc., to hand over our White House correspondent Matt Cooper's electronic notes and e-mails to the special...
...Detainee 063 was never physically harmed. He put his health in peril with his refusal to eat and to take fluids. His treatment should be put in the proper context, which is that the prisoners at Guant?namo are fed meals that accord with their religious beliefs, they are given Korans and prayer rugs, and their health is monitored. Torture camp? Sounds more like a resort to me! Ron Spencer Raleigh, North Carolina...
Next month, I'll have spent exactly half my life in Britain and half in America--my first 21 years in Britain and my past 21 Stateside. But last week, I felt strangely as if I have lived in the same country all my life. In peril, the bonds deepen. I haven't forgotten how much I wept when the Queen ordered her guards to play The Star-Spangled Banner after 9/11; and last week, in the wake of London's bombings, New Yorkers were Londoners again. Rudy Giuliani was even on the scene...
...line of the river. Behind them the light grew in the East. As they walked they compared notes, talking lightly in hobbit-fashion of the things that had happened since their capture. No listener would have guessed from their words that they had suffered cruelly, and been in dire peril...
Luckily, Steven Spielberg’s sparkling new version of H. G. Wells’ anti-colonialist sci-fi bonanza, “The War of the Worlds,” avoids the cliché pratfalls that have been the peril of many an ambitious epic. As he destroys Planet Earth, Spielberg spares us images of the White House splintering to pieces or blustery generals ordering tanks and fighter jets into battle; instead, we see the horrors through the eyes of Spielberg’s everyman hero, Ray Ferreira (Tom Cruise...