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...post-9/11 era, one potential security threat has emerged as a particular focus of concern: vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, or VBIEDs, possibly disguised as limousines. The fears were prompted in part, say U.S. intelligence sources, by a 39-page document seized from al-Qaeda last year, titled "Rough Presentation for Gas Limo Project." It lays out a scenario for using limousines to deliver bombs equipped with cylinders of a flammable gas. Though the Inauguration is not specifically mentioned, parts of the document began circulating among senior U.S. intelligence authorities on Jan. 5. In response, barriers have been...
Women aren't the only group that has been alienated by Summers' rough-and-tumble manner. Soon after leaving his post as President Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary and returning to the Cambridge campus where he earned his Ph.D. and taught economics in the 1980s, Summers questioned African-American studies professor Cornel West's scholarship and teaching, causing West to leave for Princeton and upsetting many in Harvard's African-American community. In a controversy in 2002, Muslims on campus said they were offended when Summers labeled as "anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent" the efforts...
...headline was pretty rough and the article itself was pretty unfair,” Corker said. “Hahvahdparties.com is a funny site but it doesn’t have much to do with what I do now, but The Herald didn’t make that distinction...
...real intellectual contribution. "His irrepressible desire to express himself about everything and nothing renders his point of view incoherent," writes Cohen, who co-authored a 2003 book bashing another French institution, Le Monde. "BHL has not invented a single concept; hasn't formulated a theory." That's rough treatment of an author who has long reveled in his talent for switching literary gears - from philosophy to investigation to fiction to screenwriting. But his detractors say his desire to weave between genres and disciplines, and his need to crusade from Bosnia to Darfur, is precisely the problem. They argue that...
Saturday’s Lone Star Duals signaled a rough weekend for the Crimson as the team lost its three dual meets with Eastern Michigan, Stanford and Cal State Fullerton by scores of 38-13, 25-10 and 29-16, respectively...