Word: uncertainities
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...what information prompted their extraordinary alert. But senior officials say the raw data underlying the warning came from an overseas source developed by the CIA and buttressed by snippets of information gleaned through other intelligence efforts around the world. Without offering any specifics, the source--whose reliability is still uncertain--warned that al-Qaeda will strike at any moment. As an official puts it, the information may or may not be credible, "but nobody's going to take a chance...
...tradition [of] struggle.” West emphasized hip-hop’s historical and intellectual context, instead of a pop-cultural one. Many tend to inaccurately see hip-hop and its followers as markedly unintellectual. However, as West argued, hip-hop articulates the pressures of living an unstable, uncertain life. West connected the genre to “tragicomic” aspects of the musical movements which preceded it. Both spirituals and the blues were rooted in rootlessness—songs such as “Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child” illuminated the feelings...
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With these issues in mind the Vatican, hardly an institution known for its radical liberalism, has come down on the side of peace. Last week Pope John Paul II made a call, in no uncertain terms, for people “to pray for peace and to be committed to building a world without violence, founded on respect for the dignity of every human being...
Gary T. DiCamillo, Polaroid’s chair and chief executive officer, said in a press release that the decision was “both prudent and necessary,” citing the company’s low profits in the context of an uncertain economy...