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...difference between a militant extremist who sends anthrax in an envelope and a nitwit prankster who sends cornstarch? Both are terrorists, sowing fear and wreaking havoc. Their actions have malignant and far-reaching consequences. Hoaxers should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. ALEXANDER J. WERTH Farmville, Va...
Five days after the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, CIA Director George Tenet gathered his senior spies in a conference room at the agency?s Langley, Va., headquarters and passed out copies of a top-secret memo he?d just drafted. "We?re at war," the memo announced. The CIA?s mission now was "to neutralize and destroy al Qaeda and its partners" around the world. "All the rules have changed...
...Muslim world. When the U.S. consistently demonstrates a foreign policy commitment to universal human rights instead of its own short-term interests, Americans will no longer need to purchase security. "Liberty and justice for all" isn't supposed to be limited to U.S. citizens. VIVIANA GEORGESCU Chantilly, Va...
While children should be reassured, middle schools and high schools must deal with the realities of the war on terrorism in their curriculums. At Centreville High School in Clifton, Va., science classes are looking at such issues as, Is it possible to poison a reservoir? What does anthrax do to the human body? At Suzanne Middle School in Walnut, Calif., Alan Haskvitz interrupted his seventh-grade lesson on the Boston Tea Party to discuss the difference between civil disobedience and terrorism. "We pulled out maps," he says. "We talked about how Arabs are not necessarily Muslims and vice versa...
...morning's guest speaker, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, took the stage at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va. "Everyone stand up, hold hands with your neighbor and repeat after me," he instructed. Before long, the gymnasium broke into a rousing call-and-response chant. It could have been a school pep rally, except that many of the students and teachers had their heads bowed, and they were calling out prayers for each other and peace on earth. "Afterward we asked our teachers, 'Is he actually allowed to do that?'" recalls senior Ankur Shah...