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...that changed on 9/11, which served as a wake-up call in a thousand different ways. But there is one thing we have not done that is crucial to our future: we still have not engaged in a true national dialogue about what our foreign policy should be and what constitutes our national interests and values. That is an issue of national security no less vital than protecting our ports or airlines. Throughout our history there has always been a kind of unspoken presumption that foreign policy was outside the purview of the people, that it needed...
...Wake-up Call Sunday, July 30, 8:38 a.m. Officers were dispatched to a report that an alarm clock had been ringing inside a room for an extended period of time in Vanderbilt Hall. An officer arrived at the location and reported that the alarm clock had been turned...
...from the violence. "I vary my route every day on the way to work but was running late and could have easily been on the road where the bomb struck," said a Western businessman who has an office near the site of one of the bombs. "It was a wake-up call...
...heist was a wake-up call for Turkey, with its rich storehouse of antiquities, and has helped expose the shoddy state of museums across the country. Culture minister Atilla Koc last week ordered a nationwide inventory of museums. Several institutions are now being investigated for losses. The inquiry has already produced results; the manager of the depot at another Turkish museum in south-central Turkey was arrested Tuesday after 545 ancient coins were switched with fakes on his watch...
...presence in the run-up to next year's elections-something the U.S. was initially reluctant to support-more likely now? Absolutely. It's now certain that the U.N. Security Council will approve an extension. I wish the violence hadn't happened, but this crisis has been a wake-up call to the Timorese leadership...