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...name. Legally the name Harvard belongs to the President and Fellows. But without the faculty, students, and sub-agencies of the College cooperating in the Harvard project, it is hard to imagine that the name would be worth very much at all. We students are among the people who vest value in the Harvard name in the first place. It is an insult to assert that we have no right to its use, and that the very name of our own institution is something we must qualify and disclaim...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: A Nominal Problem | 9/23/2007 | See Source »

...wonder Farhad agreed to go to Jalalabad to kill a fellow Muslim. Still, wasn't there a doubt in his mind about taking his life like that and who knows how many others? No. The Taliban had told him that when he pushed the button on his suicide vest, it was Allah then who would decide whether to summon him to heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Talk With a Suicide Bomber | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...high-seriousness with which Smeaton fielded reporters' earnest questions on June 30, the day of the attack, that has truly elevated him to comic status. With the faux-authority of his orange worker's vest, he gives an account full of dramatic pauses and the inflated diction of a policeman giving evidence: "I saw a man egress the vehicle," he explained to one reporter. In the event's aftermath, Smeaton's unblinking gravitas has become pure British satire - the David Brent of airport security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Smeaton: Scottish Hero | 7/11/2007 | See Source »

...next and most urgent task is to infiltrate terrorist groups. This is hard but not impossible. Israel, for example, has managed to set up a web of Palestinian collaborators. Last winter a would-be suicide bomber took refuge in a Palestinian house after his explosive vest failed to detonate on a bus. Unbeknown to him, the father of his host was an informer for the Israeli domestic intelligence service. The father contacted the police, and the man was arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotting the Terror Threat | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...video of the journalist, released on Sunday by his captors, shows him wearing what is supposedly an explosive vest. In the video, Johnston warns: "The situation now is very serious. As you can see I have been dressed in what is an explosive belt, which the kidnappers say will be detonated if there was any attempt to storm this area," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope for Gaza Hostages? | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

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