Word: threatã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...attracted the attention of the artistic community, who had long ago discovered sex and drugs. However, the two movements soon found idealistic common ground in the form of the American anti-war movement. In the case of rock and roll, the Vietnam War was a personal threat??rock’s young audience risked the threat of being drafted and killed in a war in which they did not support. In the case of art, the war represented the rejection of love and beauty; supporting the war would mean that one was unable to critically question the goings...
...Khyber Mountains. According to the U.N. refugee agency, since Sept. 11, more than 100,000 such refugees have entered Pakistan. Yet after the seemingly haphazard destruction of power plants, military targets, medical clinics and civilian villages, Rumsfeld asserts that the Taliban still poses a threat. This “threat?? is the justification given for the continuation of the Bush administration’s textbook-style policy for the first phase of their “America Strikes Back” campaign. But unfortunately for policy-makers, Afghanistan does not exist in a vacuum...
More than most Harvard squads, the water polo team generally seems somewhat ill-suited to individual accolades. The team prides itself on posing a balanced offensive threat??a game in which five or six different players find the back of the net is far more satisfying than one in which one player busts out for a handful of goals...
...lives of their citizens and to strengthen their regimes. Doing so will require that we cast aside some requirements of our previous economic aid, like our preference for dealing with democracies rather than kingdoms and military dictatorships. It will require honoring the reverse of President Bush’s threat??you’re either with us or against us in the war on terror—by rewarding those who choose to side with us. And it will require a fortitude and commitment that extend far beyond the usual election-centric time horizons of American policy...