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...avoid the Harvard Republican Club labeling me some particularly disturbed peace-nik, let me say now that I am all for retribution and punishment for the individuals and countries responsible for Sept. 11th. Anyone deluded enough to think his interests are sufficiently different from those of the United States to justify what happened this month will find just how fierce our nation can be, and rightly so. If Afghanistan and bin Laden are behind this attack, we should bring merciless, unceasing ruin to their lives and to their land. At the same time, our allies in the region are often...
Most people began filing out of the door almost immediately after the lights went out, trying to avoid the stifling heat of the party. Some clambered out the windows...
...immovable things," says an Air Force general. "We don't do so well when they move around and they're small." Both are true of bin Laden. "He is the hardest man ever to get to," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland. To avoid being spotted by satellites, bin Laden and his associates use human couriers to relay messages, who sometimes travel on foot rather than in cars. He has been extra careful since Chechen secessionist leader Dzhokar Dudayev was blown up by a Russian rocket while using a satellite phone. Though...
Even on Wall Street, there's a patriotic sense that a deep plunge would be a victory for the attackers. Within reason, traders will try to avoid that. Helping them will be new rules that make it easier for companies to buy back their own stock. Networking giant Cisco announced that it would buy back as much as $3 billion of its stock during the next two years...
Still, students with no history of mental distress have found themselves struggling with the devastating emotions surrounding the terrorist attacks. “Normally I try to avoid UHS, though I was considering going to UHS or Room 13 because I was deeply affected by the whole thing,” says Andrew P. Ostergaard ‘03. “I suspect a lot of people went, though it’s not something you usually talk about...