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...other observers, however, the real point was not that the new Administration dismissed the terrorist theat. On the contrary, Rice, Hadley and Cheney, says an official, "all got that it was important." The question is, How high a priority did terrorism get? Clarke says that dealing with al-Qaeda "was in the top tier of issues reviewed by the Bush Administration." But other topics got far more attention. The whole Bush national-security team was obsessed with setting up a national system of missile defense. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was absorbed by a long review of the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Had A Plan | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

Mazzoleni, himself a former goaltender while at Michigan State, believes theat type of agility serves Crothers well in goal...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey's Crothers Attempts To Fill Jonas' Big Shoes | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

This celebration of the imagination in the faceof so much reality--not just in the movie's plotbut in its whole visual and emotional style--is abrave choice that will make this film a classic.See this movie for a reminder of the wonderfulheights that film can achieve, and for theat-long-last American arrival of a majorinternational talent

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is 'Life' Really Beautiful? | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...favor of immediate attack is that if Iraq is not beaten back now it develop a tactical nuclear weapon that will irrevocably shift the balance of power in the region and perhaps lead to a nuclear war. But Iraq's obtaining a nuclear capacity is not an immediate theat. Certainly it is not sufficiently imminent to justify an armed attack if any other option exists...

Author: By Thomas Gewecke, | Title: Let the Sanctions Kick In | 12/4/1990 | See Source »

Just exactly what our equivocator's answer has to do with the original question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never on it. Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes theat the right answer is known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance. The artful equivocation must imply the writer knows the right answer, but it must never get definite enough to eliminate any possibilities...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

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