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...homefront, the INS, aided by local police, continues to round up men from Pakistan and other Muslim countries and trap them by the thousands in detention centers throughout the country, where some are deported and others are kept indefinitely. There are at this moment over a hundred such men locked up in the Kearney, N.J county jail, according to calls for action circulated over e-mail listservs. The Department of Justice is a party to these deportations, which are largely legal even if unconstitutional, thanks to the powers granted by Congress to federal enforcement agencies. If the guys happen...
...It’s easy to fall into the trap [of playing a back-and-forth game] and get sloppy,” Moore said. “We need to be disciplined to the style that has made us successful...
Phil Donahue has fallen into this trap of downplaying the Iraqi threat, and Miller called him on it last month. When Donahue smugly supposed, metaphorically, that America might start a war thinking Saddam had a “gun” and then find out afterwards that he only had a “rock,” Miller became exasperated. “Oh, if it was only a rock, Phil, for God’s sakes. The sword of Damocles is now an ICBM of Damocles, for God’s sakes...
...Bear Trap...
However, Gabrielse said that ATHENA’s success came in part from work Gabrielse had already done. He said that many of the devices and techniques used by ATHENA to create the anti-hydrogen—including the football field-sized machine used to trap and merge antiprotons and positrons—had been developed by ATRAP in years earlier...