Word: tap
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...Terrorists could try to tap into the more ample supplies of chemical arms believed to be stockpiled by Iraq and other outlaw states. But Tucker points out that the leaders of such countries would probably be reluctant to let weapons banned by international treaty out of their direct control; if they were traced back it could lead to swift retaliation. "We know Saddam Hussein is ruthless," he says, "but generally he is not reckless...
Following its best campaign in nine years last season, the Harvard field hockey team chose to increase the difficulty of its schedule. No more Rhode Island (an 8-12 team last year) or California (one of the few schools that actually plays out West) on tap...
Additionally, Congress should consider carefully Justice department requests to loosen the rules on wiretapping phones and computers. Currently, law enforcement must obtain a court order for each phone or computer tapped. The Justice Department argues, and we agree, that it makes much more sense to obtain a single court order to tap all of the phones and computers of a specific person. The danger is, of course, that the government will listen to other communications on a phone that a criminal may have used only once. The law must allow for quick judicial review of the wiretaps...
...blue ribbons? I'm not down on anyone who does it, but it makes me sort of uncomfortable. Normally, I think journalists bow too often at the false shrine of objectivity; our on-the-one-hand, on-the-other reporting keeps us from getting at the truth. We tap out stories that are so balanced that they're largely useless in helping people see the world. ("While some say the deficit is worrisome, other argue that it's not a problem.") There's no reason journalists should idiotically feign utter neutrality in the wake of the 9/11 attack; that would...
...when the future President came to Seoul from Cholla half a century ago. After dictator Park Chung Hee kidnapped and then released the dissident in 1973, Kim met furtively with Kang in a garage. Afraid of wiretaps, Kim used improvised sign language: a big nose meant the Americans, a tap on the shoulder signified epaulets?Korea's generals. Kim said just one thing out loud, recalls Kang. "He told me: 'I am going to be President. I will never give...