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...like. It sent a missile into Arafat's Ramallah compound, for the second time this year, coming within 70 feet of where the Palestinian leader was sitting with Miguel Moratinos, the European Union's Middle East envoy. Army officers say they are not trying to kill Arafat--just to scare him into curbing the uprising. For good measure, the Israelis also bombarded a building in Arafat's Gaza City compound...
...having a drink with a friend when the subject turned to terrorism and the shortcomings of the U.S. national security system. As an example, the friend, who works for the government, cited a scare that U.S. intelligence received soon after 9/11 when an agent reported that terrorists were planning to smuggle a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon into New York City. Over the next few days, I and other members of the Washington bureau worked the tip, discovering that the threat had indeed been taken seriously but was kept secret lest it cause panic. This week I returned to diplomacy...
Applying to officially leave Harvard to study abroad and receive credit in a foreign country is not a simple process. While there are no official deterrents, the quantity of paperwork does scare off many interested students, as does the possibility of not receiving credit for work done abroad—petitions for credit are submitted upon a student’s return to Harvard...
...game, it became evident that the contest would go down to the wire. After Scott sent the partisan crowd of 5,137 into a frenzy with two more from the charity stripe one minute later, the Cardinal looked like it might be able to stave off the scare from the Crimson...
...soaking up the ovation of his people with his fists on his hips and his chin thrust out and that odd little party hat perched on his head. It was only then that we started to ask, Is this guy kidding or what? Nikita Kruschev was similarly supposed to scare the daylights out of us, and he did for a while. Then he took off his shoe, whacked it on his desk, and the bad-guy boss started to look an awful lot more like a small-time clown...