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...least six people have been killed in violent anti-American protests in Pakistan, but these were predicted and have not assumed dimensions that would threaten the stability of General Musharraf's regime. The general has also moved preemptively, placing a number of key Islamist leaders under house arrests and purging Taliban sympathizers from the military's top brass; Yasser Arafat's police found themselves playing a role usually reserved for their Israeli counterparts, putting down an anti-American demonstration in Gaza and killing three Palestinians. Arafat appears to have gambled that the diplomatic gains from ingratiating himself with...
...imagination. Yes and no. I would say that the terrorists took advantage of an imagination credibility gap. Prior to the attacks, we may well have imagined the possibility of using planes to destroy buildings, or the capture of Air Force One, or the stealing of a nuclear device to threaten the world, or the earth colliding with a Rhode Island-sized asteroid. But all of these thoughts were not possibilities to be feared or contingencies to be mulled over, but rather idle flights of fancy, suitable only for the most base movie or trite short story...
...defense, which had struggled to stop Northeastern’s ground game all afternoon, keyed on the run to hold McKansas to only four rushing yards in the fourth quarter. Combining Harvard’s defensive scheme with an inept passing attack, the Huskies couldn’t threaten the remainder of the game...
...meet with other people. After barely a year as President, he wrote, "I must find a way to finesse the Cabinet, staff, Congress, political types--who take time, but could do their job sans my participation. Symbolic meetings should be the answer." As the Watergate scandals began to threaten his presidency, he met with his own party's Senate leader, Hugh Scott, and barked, "Our Senators are nothing but a bunch of jackasses. We can't count on them. F___ the Senate...
...cropdusting planes for a day following reports of previous interest by at least one of the hijackers, and police arrested 10 people who acquired licenses to transport hazardous materials. Meanwhile, President Bush announced a host of new security measures, including authorization to shoot down civilian aircraft that appeared to threaten U.S. cities...