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...other public venues that might attract terrorists—like the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games just around the corner—a carefully secured perimeter with metal detectors and bomb-sniffing wands would short-circuit most terrorist plots without trampling on the civil liberties of everyone else in attendance. As has always been the case, the best way to prevent terrorism is a capable intelligence force that can sniff out trouble at an early stage...
...future, safety will be the paramount issue for competitions and competitors. Next year may provide a watershed for security, with two high-profile events taking place: the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the soccer World Cup hosted by Japan and South Korea. Both events have already been affected by Sept. 11 - insurance premiums for the World Cup have become more expensive and a minimum extra $40 million has been injected into security for the Winter Games...
...offer criticism in every arena of my life, on this issue they were generally polite, sometimes effusively positive. When my attempted reduction sauce was reduced to a smoking black glob in the corner of the saucepan, my mother quietly turned on the fan over the stove and put more salt on her chicken...
First, the University is harming students. By publicly stating that inflation is a “serious problem,” Harvard is telling future employers, graduate schools and the public at large that an “A” isn’t worth a grain of salt, and a “B” is worth even less. By publicly admitting that inflation is a problem at Harvard, the University is hurting students’ chances of success in the future...
...retreating back or insisting that we can make these cookies on our own, thanks very much, and no, we do not need help. (Later, of course, we feel grouchy when no one eats more than one cookie because we misread the recipe book and put in tablespoons of salt when it called for teaspoons...