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During this tenuous time, when terror threats jeopardize our way of life, America needs a new plan for terrorism. But instead of permanently adopting legislation full of affronts on individual liberties, Congress must prevent Hatch’s rider from getting passed. A new anti-terrorism plan may draw on some of the PATRIOT Act’s more successful legislation, but blindly accepting the existing act will inadequately fight terrorism and extensively curb our freedoms...
...Harvard fans listened to the updates of PA announcer Mike Brewster, they hoped for losses by other NCAA tournament bubble teams. The Crimson faithful also paid close attention to underdogs in the CCHA, Hockey East and WCHA tournaments, who had the potential to bump Harvard out of its tenuous at-large bid were they to earn their leagues’ automatic bids as conference champs...
...filled with dread. Many are convinced that a war would breed regional instability and spark a fresh burst of anti-American rage. Terrorist ranks would find fresh recruits to spread violence across the region. Fundamentalist forces could provoke crackdowns that stifle any political opening. Or if regimes allowed a tenuous democracy, well-organized fundamentalists could come to power. "The consequences of war," Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal tells Time, "are going to be tragic...
...enfranchised radical groups in various places around the world." But allegations of Iraqi-Abu Sayyaf collusion remain ill-documented. "Perhaps the supposed links will become clearer later," says Dr. Asiri Abubakar, Professor of Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines, "but as of now they're at best tenuous." Iraq, not surprisingly, charged the Philippines with doing the Americans' bidding. Some regional intelligence sources agree. "I think the Philippines did it to curry favor with Washington," says one senior intelligence official bluntly, echoing opinions that emerged soon after Foreign Secretary Blas Ople went public with the accusations. U.S. President...
With such tenuous support among state DemocratsSilber has little chance of snaring a top partypost, say some political analysts...