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...perhaps we can strike a middle ground—it’s not porn, and it’s not art. Rather, it’s a $9,000 excursion into the pump-priming of professional photographers, printers and legal counsel...
MEANWHILE IN LONDON ... Flight of Fancy Cold war-era military officials cooked up plans to use pigeons as kamikaze bombers, according to top-secret files made public last week. Fitted with explosive capsules of chemical agents, the Air Ministry claimed the birds could strike a target up to 320 km away. But MI5 branded the report's author a "menace in pigeon affairs," and, happily for the birds, the plans never took...
...warning law enforcement agencies to be on the alert for the possibility that suicide bombers may attempt to strike inside the United States. A lightly classified intelligence bulletin circulated Thursday to 18,000 U.S. law enforcement bodies is headlined "Possible suicide bomber indicators," and was distributed via the Bureau?s secure Law Enforcement Online (LEO) Intranet. It warns local badge-carriers to look for obvious signs of trouble - people wearing heavy, bulky jackets on warm days, smelling of chemicals, trailing wires from their jackets - as well, more subtle ones, such as tightly clenched fists. Someone who never shows his palms...
...first amendment, proposed by Joseph R. Oliveri ’05, called to strike a clause from the bill that allowed people to use the bathroom that they deem appropriate. Oliveri said he was concerned that permitting such free reign could lead to more assaults in campus bathrooms...
...Administration allowed itself to be blinded by righteousness. Why? Because moral pomposity is almost always a camouflage for baser fears and desires. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the neoconservatives share a primal belief in the use of military power to intimidate enemies. If the U.S. didn't strike back "big time," it would be perceived as weak. (Crushing the peripheral Taliban and staying focused on rooting out al-Qaeda cells wasn't "big" enough.) The President may have had some personal motives--doing to Saddam Hussein what his father didn't; filling out Karl Rove's prescription of a strong leader...