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...full impact of the new tape reached the public when the FBI issued a stark bulletin containing a new vocabulary of alarm warning of "spectacular" terrorist attacks to come. Over the weekend, London's Sunday Times reported three North Africans had been arrested after British intelligence foiled their alleged plot to release gas, possibly cyanide, in the London Underground. Also over the weekend, a London journalist for the Qatar satellite channel al-Jazeera said he had received a six-page unsigned statement that appeared to come from al-Qaeda, threatening more attacks against Washington and New York City...
...While the Administration did not raise the national alert level from yellow to orange, officials are bracing for the worst and operating on a hair trigger regarding any suspicious activity. Before 9/11, the FBI preferred to keep its targets under surveillance until agents acquired hard evidence of a specific plot. Today the mission is disruption first...
...actors on an uncluttered stage, speaking in elliptical sentence fragments. This must be modern theater - talk stripped down till it edges incoherence. The audience needs an act of severe concentration, and perhaps a peek at the program, to figure out what's going on. But once the plot is deduced, we see that "A Number" has as many S-F twists as a doomsday thriller...
...North African who had lived in Slovakia for a year did nothing to dispel these fears. Rabah Kadre and two other North African Muslims were arrested under the Terrorism Act, but their specific offense remained a mystery. British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott dismissed reports that they had been plotting a cyanide-gas attack in the London Underground. But newspapers said they had received the information from security sources, suggesting that different arms of the government were not in sync. The British weren't alone in fearing chemical weapons. The U.S. embassy in Rome was awaiting the arrival of "escape...
...opera, probably first performed for Queen Anne’s birthday, made its London debut in 1706. The plot concerns Camilla, the rightful queen of the Volscians, and is a sexy tale of usurpation, mistaken identities, love, war and imprisonment. Sung in English and replete with what Griesbach deems “conspicuous melodies,” Camilla became the second most popular opera in eighteenth-century England, trailing only the Beggar’s Opera. Neil F. Davidson ’03, president of the Early Music Society and producer of Camilla, maintains that the opera?...