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...providing counseling and information to those who request it. Physicians will be running information sessions on anthrax this week, but admit that the likelihood of an infection incident is low. “The risk of actually contracting anthrax is extraordinarily low, just because targets seem to be at government offices, not everyday folks,” Hennings said...
Cambridge residents should work with the University to influence the museum’s design instead of denying Harvard’s request outright. We sincerely hope that the Riverside committee will be able to reach a solution that serves both Cambridge and Harvard well...
...Security Council met late Tuesday to discuss its response to the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. The focus of that discussion was how to provide urgent aid to the millions of Afghanis who face starvation, but high on agenda was a request from Afghanistan's exiled king, Zahir Shah, to send peacekeeping troops to Kabul in the event of the Taliban's collapse. King Zahir is the lynchpin of Western hopes for a consensus-based government in Kabul that could begin rebuilding the failed state of Afghanistan with international assistance. Maintaining the security of such a government in the face...
...fired for criticizing George W. Bush. Dan Rather- who once had an on-air run-in with Bush's father - now swore his fealty to Bush the Younger on David Letterman. We put flags on our video graphics, our covers and our lapels. TV networks accepted an unprecedented administration request that they limit their airing of al-Qaeda videotapes. Fox turned over an hour of prime-time (albeit by bumping the very low-rated "Pasadena") for a special terrorism episode of "America's Most Wanted." A consortium of media groups even held off indefinitely on reporting the results...
...There is always pressure on the U.S. to be part of peacekeeping missions, and seeing as how we've just bombed Afghanistan to smithereens there may be some moral obligation to take part. It's too early to tell how the Bush administration will deal with such a request. The Pentagon obviously wouldn't like it; they don't like peacekeeping missions. But that's also why they don't get a big vote in these decisions...