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...Dershowitz attacked Spielberg’s film for what he saw as its confusion about the causes of terrorism. Dershowitz wrote that Spielberg attempts to link the Israelis who tracked and killed the Black September terrorists and future terror attacks against Western nations, and that Spielberg was mistaken in his suggestion that the “counterterrorism only incites more terrorism...
Dershowitz continued that “terrorism works because it is successful, and success begets repetition.” This idea forms the basis of his 2002 book “Why Terrorism Works,” a book that drew fire from many civil libertarians because it advocated torture of terror suspects in certain instances.* [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...begun to be supplanted as the media face of global jihad by Musab al-Zarqawi, whose grisly exploits in Iraq grab headlines week after week. Not only that, Zarqawi may even be running operations abroad-his Iraq-based Qaeda affiliate is suspected of mounting last November's terror attacks on hotels in Jordan, as well as sending operatives on recruiting and fundraising missions in Europe-and his theater of operations has, as Bin Laden acknowledged in his message, become the global magnet for jihadists seeking battlefield experience (in the way that Afghanistan was in the 1980s...
...sociological and scientific academic spheres. Harvard’s pre-medical students are inarguably some of the brightest young scientists in the world, but there is also a population of dedicated and innovative students in the social sciences who strive to help alleviate HIV’s reign of terror. By bringing these two groups of students together in a class that interests them both, Harvard is creating a pool of interdisciplinary scholars that will prove invaluable to the pursuit of medical progress.And that, Harvard, is real intellectual sustenance. Emma M. Lind ’09, a Crimson editorial editor...
...Photos of the Year prove that 2005 was a devastating time for most of the world. My eye was caught by the picture of the London bus mangled by a bomb explosion. Ironically, the remains of a theater or movie advertisement on the side of the bus read, OUTRIGHT TERROR ... BOLD AND BRILLIANT. Emilio A. Schlabitz Culver City, California...