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...America's paranoia about another terrorist strike. So the government is telling us that al-Qaeda is going to attack, just like on the Fourth of July and this past New Year's and all last year and the year before that? I'm not holding my breath. Allan Weir Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. You at TIME, the rest of the news media, Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge, politicians, theorists, commentators, specialists and so forth, just shut up. With your rants about even the remote possibility of bombings, you are doing exactly what the terrorists want you to do: instill uncertainty...
...Authority; Cummins is recommending that the boat, Merauke-based Buna Perawan, be apprehended and towed back to Thursday Island. But first Cummins wants the eight fishermen to retrieve their buoys and lines; Coastwatch has located the gear 9 nautical mi. away. "The lines are an environmental hazard," says Geoff Weir, a member of the boarding party. Typically, sharks caught on these lines are stripped of their fins and thrown back into the water alive. "Not only is the harvesting method wasteful," says Weir, a marine biologist by training, "but taking out the predator at the top of the food chain...
Pettit said he didn’t know about the record until Harvard assistant director of athletic communications Jamie Weir told him about it earlier this season...
...It’s a lot different being on this side,” said Leaman of his return to the Harvard rink. “Obviously, there’s a lot of familiar people. It was good to see [Dick Emerson] the trainer, and Jamie Weir [Harvard’s assistant director of athletic communications], and people like that. [Because] I think the people around here are just really good people. They’re solid, solid people...
...many casualties that, without getting too gory, are explicitly shown; even some beloved characters are not spared. When Maturin and Aubrey have to make tough decisions, you feel their pain and the confusion, pain and anger of their crewmen. Between Master and Commander, The Truman Show and Witness, Peter Weir has proven himself to be one of the smartest populist directors working today...