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Thaksin hasn't taken the bait. While the violence continued last week with a spate of bombings and shootings that left four people dead, the Prime Minister ruled out the idea of retaliating with force against the insurgents. At the same time he ordered a dramatic increase in security at...
In November the OSA and the UC planned a Harvard-Yale tailgate in the face of mounting pressure from an increasingly vigilant Boston Police Department. The OSA eventually footed the bill for more than $20,000 of the costs for the event.
Simcox bristles at the term vigilante, saying that his group is not detaining anyone but only fulfilling the President's post--Sept. 11 request that all Americans remain vigilant--and, in the process, providing a release valve for popular outrage. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, meanwhile, tell TIME they will announce a "significant increase in resources" this week to address the influx of illegal immigrants still crossing by land in Arizona. --By Brian Bennett
As for issuing alerts, Chertoff says he doesn't want "to get up in front of the public and say the sky is falling if it's not." At the same time, he appreciates the value of a vigilant public. There have been recent cases, he says, in which a...
IS IT USEFUL TO KEEP AMERICANS A LITTLE ON EDGE? There is a value to having people be a little bit more vigilant. As with the shoe bomber or some more recent occurrences I am aware of, plots have been stopped because somebody noticed something about the kinds of things...