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...final page to a rushed rundown of President George W. Bush’s first few months in office. The conclusion is not so much an ending as an added segment in a continuing story, but it has, in the aftermath of Sept. 11, turned out to be immensely potent. Rather than rogue states shooting missiles, he writes, senior intelligence analysts have said that America’s greatest danger in the coming years would come from terrorists, who could walk into an American city, any American city, and wreak havoc. “Foreign policy was not high...
...that the U.S. is not just the enemy of the Arabs or even of Muslims generally but also the enemy of God. It is an idea encouraged by the Ayatullah Khomeini, who proclaimed the U.S. "the Great Satan," spread by Islamic extremists throughout the Arab world and now given potent expression by, it would seem, the biggest player among all such militants today, Osama bin Laden...
Well, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. Lafayette did score 14 points and managed to hold Harvard’s potent rushing attack to “only” 165 yards. Still, this game was over by the opening kickoff. A busted fake reverse compounded with an offensive holding penalty pushed Lafayette back to their own eight yard line to begin the ballgame. Harvard went on to score 24 unanswered points to put the game out of reach by halftime...
Normalcy is a potent symbol of resilience after such a tragedy. It is also an understandable means of self-defense to deal with the enormity of what happened. One can only hope that an individual’s return to routine is neither an expression of denial nor of apathy. To go through this tragedy without reflecting should be profoundly alarming...
With Florida State leading 9-7 at the half, the Tarheels came out and dominated in the third quarter. Backup quarterback Darian Durant tossed two touchdown passes and North Carolina held the usually potent Seminole offense to 224 yards while shutting it out in the second half, as the Tarheels coasted to the victory...