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...camp in Afghanistan, the new al-Qaeda is more likely to bring the training to recruits who are already "embedded" in the operational theater. And rather than recruiting only those capable of participating in sophisticated terror plots thousands of miles away, it may also be tempted to broaden its scope to establish local "mujahedeen" to wage hit-and-run and suicide attacks on Americans in their midst...
That policy change drew student ire in the form of a large rally and outspoken criticism. It also sparked protest from Faculty members who said they did not understand the consequences or scope of the rule they were passing...
...issue of Harvard’s culture and social climate that spurred the most discussion from the speakers, who went beyond the scope of the report to express concern about alcohol, social space and personal relations between students...
...with so much enthusiasm everywhere we went that one of our main challenges was limiting the scope,” Lithgow says...
Reefer Madness (Houghton Mifflin; 310 pages) is the title of Schlosser's new book, and in it he widens his scope from a single industry to take on the entirety of what he calls America's "underground economy"--that vast, shadowy realm of financial activity that goes unrecorded because it's either illegal or unsavory or both. Like the fast-food business, the underground economy has ballooned over the past 30 years, to about $1 trillion, and Schlosser aims to find out why. He's hunting big conceptual game here, nothing less than America's troubled, hypocritical soul...