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Thompson's theory never made much sense. It's hard to imagine any scenario by which buried spores could emerge from the ground, mix with drinking water and then lodge in someone's lungs. And sure enough, a sweep of the American Media building quickly made clear that Stevens had come into contact with anthrax at work, not play. Traces of powdery spores were found on his computer keyboard, in the company mailroom and, ultimately, throughout America Media's Boca Raton, Fla., offices. Someone had deliberately sent the microbes into the building...
...called home from the region last week, and his return date is not currently scheduled as Washington awaits further results from Arafat's efforts against the radicals. The U.S. has made clear it rejects Sharon's declaration of the PA leader as "irrelevant," and wants to avoid a scenario that would result in Arafat's political collapse. But it's unlikely that Arafat will ever do enough to satisfy Sharon; the question is whether and at what point he'll do enough to satisfy Washington...
...with suitcase nukes, the conventional wisdom about terrorists--that they stick to attacks with high profiles but low casualties--was dangerously misguided. "It is increasingly clear," she wrote in her 1999 book, The Ultimate Terrorists, "that not all terrorists feel that way." In the book, which begins with a scenario in which the Empire State Building is destroyed by a homemade nuclear bomb, she coined the term macro-terrorism to describe terrorist acts that result in mass casualties. On Sept. 11 macroterrorism became a reality...
...even though Harvard couldn't quite slam the door shut on their hosts, playing opponents like Michigan is a win-win scenario for the Crimson. It means exposure. Now, Mazzoleni can tell a potential recruit that if you come to Harvard you'll enjoy some of the best academics in the country as well as the best competition the nation has to offer on the ice. After Saturday night, he can now say that you'll be in a position to beat those teams, as well...
...also said he was resistant to the suggestion of developing a blanket policy for handling such requests because of the difficulty to anticipate every possible scenario in which government agents might solicit the University for information about its students...