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...Crimson’s 2-1 advantage was tenuous. Harvard would not win another...
Allowing a military organization to disseminate American propaganda will undermine the already tenuous trustworthiness of the Pentagon, both at home and around the world. There is a fine line between narrow military necessity—where deception may be justified—and more general propaganda, where falsehood reinforces negative American stereotypes. This line is already blurry, and the Pentagon’s involvement will make it even more difficult to differentiate between...
...last fall al-Arian was an obscure computer prof again--until the Fox Network's Bill O'Reilly angrily asked him in September to explain the FBI probe. Al-Arian condemned the Sept. 11 attacks but repeated his support for the intifadeh. Afterward, U.S.F. suspended him, using the somewhat tenuous claim that he had linked the school to his politics by letting Fox identify him as a U.S.F. professor. New U.S.F. president Judy Genshaft chafed as outsiders began to call her school "Jihad U" and "University of Suicidal Fanatics." Critics noted that al-Arian's brother-in-law, Mazen...
...interviews using the FBI, the Attorney General enlisted local law enforcement to request interviews. But by asking local officials to do some of the work for him, he managed to divide the country's police communities. Some cops, scarred by accusations of racial profiling and eager to maintain tenuous relations with nervous Arab communities, are finding reasons not to comply with his request...
...government to step in here and do its job. It is not a glassy-eyed love of government," says Paul Light, a scholar at the Brookings Institution who co-authored a recent report on changing attitudes. "What we're seeing here is a demand for action. It's a tenuous surge in trust." The number of people who say they have "a great deal of confidence" in the government's ability to prevent more attacks has slipped from 41% to 25%, according to the TIME/CNN poll. The President did his part last week to bolster public faith in the government...