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...course. Assessing its credibility is the real challenge, and it has never been greater. On any given day, the various human and electronic sources the CIA consults, many of dubious reliability, generate 40 to 100 new threats. These are now compiled in a daily report known as the "threat matrix," which is distributed to top national security and intelligence officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measuring The Threat | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...course. Assessing its credibility is the real challenge, and it has never been greater. On any given day, the various human and electronic sources the CIA consults, many of dubious reliability, generate 40 to 100 new threats. These are now compiled in a daily report known as the "threat matrix," which is distributed to top national security and intelligence officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measuring the Threat | 11/4/2001 | See Source »

...different conversations by suspected terrorist associates on imminent nuclear, biological and chemical attacks. The problem is that most threats are bogus, and as a senior U.S. intelligence official admits, "you can get bogged down in the detail." Just two weeks ago, another Administration official tells Time, the threat matrix contained warnings that terrorists might try a major attack, such as a car bomb, against a U.S. military facility in Saudi Arabia or the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. But since then they have received countless reports of new potential threats, a distressing number of them right here at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measuring the Threat | 11/4/2001 | See Source »

...identity, and from there it ran the whole gamut from rambling personal stories, an a cappella song, some high-school self-revelation and some quite phenomenally good spoken word style poetry. High-paced, sometimes a little too much, the poetry could make reference to Neo of The Matrix and Jesus in the same breath. One freshman stepped up to the mic and echoed what a lot of people seemed to be feeling, “I just started school, and there’s so much shit going on.” Sharing it all seemed to make everyone?...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: outandabout: Spoken Word | 10/19/2001 | See Source »

...crew of influences ranging from 50s jangle pop to British Invasion rock to New Wave. The songs, save some masterful use of modulation showcased in tracks like “Soma,” are simplistic—no fancy drumming, straightforward guitar chords in a verse-chorus-verse matrix. Still, good, catchy music doesn’t have to be cerebral or complex—Is This It hits the listener on a gut level and gets under his skin until he’s bobbing his head, tapping his foot and wishing that he too were surrounded...

Author: By Thalia S. Field, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Strokes: This is It | 10/19/2001 | See Source »

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