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That did not seem like sheer hysteria by Friday, when we learned that Tom Brokaw's assistant at NBC had tested positive for anthrax after opening a threatening letter with powder inside. At that moment the New York Times was being evacuated after another letter rained powder in the newsroom; this one was addressed to bioterrorism expert Judith Miller. Initial testing showed no sign of anthrax, but the threat still seemed real, and cunning. You didn't need to shoot the messengers; you just needed to scare them to death, because fear is bacterial as well. It can spread...
Blair's presentation of the British case, combined with the U.S. evidence offered to NATO, seems to have been persuasive. A NATO diplomat told TIME that "the sheer weight of information"--rather than any single piece of intelligence--left the ambassadors of all 19 NATO countries "without a shred of doubt" about al-Qaeda's complicity. And on Thursday the predominantly Islamic nation of Pakistan gave the case against bin Laden a major vote of confidence when Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Riaz Khan said the Pakistani government sees "sufficient grounds for indictment" of the Saudi exile...
...Sheer repetition of undergraduates’ importance has its value...
...Union and the pro-gay and pro-choice movements. Although questionably tasteful at best, the skit and song elicited laughter from the audience. In some ways, taking it to such extremes helped to deal calmly with the irrational prejudices that have emerged since the attack; outrage was transformed into sheer amusement...
...education can only go so far. No place can protect against every type of attack—especially if it has as many diverse buildings and people as Harvard. Even in New York, which has spent millions over the last decade preparing and training for a terrorist attack, the sheer scale of last week’s attack baffled many law enforcement officials. Before last month, few terrorist scenarios considered suicidal hijackers with pilot training...