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...Sept. 11, 2001, was a wake-up call, clearly America has fallen back asleep. With the exception of airports, much of what is critical to our way of life remains unprotected: water and food supplies; refineries, energy grids and pipelines; bridges, tunnels, trains, trucks and cargo containers; as well as the cyberbackbone that underpins the information age in which we live. The security measures we have been cobbling together are hardly fit to deter amateur thieves, vandals and hackers, never mind determined terrorists. Worse still, small improvements are often oversold as giant steps forward, lowering the guard of average citizens...
...outcry exemplified a common sentiment expressed by many students in the wake of yesterday’s announcement...
...wake of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s forced resignation on Jan. 27, professors’ calls for Summers’ resignation grew exponentially louder over the past two weeks. So did criticism from students, alumni, and some Faculty dissenters who castigated Summers’ opponents for fostering a “culture of grievance, intemperance, and ill will,” as Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse wrote in an e-mail last week...
...outcry exemplified a common sentiment expressed by many students in the wake of today’s announcement...
Kidd sent out the e-mail last Wednesday in the wake of the Salient’s decision to reprint four of the Danish cartoons which have prompted riots and embassy-burnings across the Middle East...