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Immediately after the discovery, Kimbara and Zhu altered their work hours to an 11 p.m. to 9 a.m. shift in order to avoid McKeon’s supervision, the affadavit alleges...
...wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long ... We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." The speech, wrote Peter Riddell, a sober columnist for the London Times, "signaled the most far-reaching shift in American foreign policy for more than 50 years...
...take care of your children," he asked, "is that terrorism?" "I'm not in the business of picking on orphans or widows," said Sylvester. "If the organizations are reputable they need to clean themselves out." Bosnia, of course, is not the only place to have seen a shift toward preemptive justice and the use of "secret evidence" to detain terror suspects since Sept. 11. But NATO peacekeepers hold unusually sweeping powers in the Balkans, and the consequences of alienating Muslims are worrying. Anela Kobilica, wife of one of the six Algerians deported to Guantanamo Bay, paused on a dusty road...
After the dotcom crash, the appetite for technological upheaval is slim. And that's just as well: most really big technologies, from the railroad to electricity, have made their impact gradually. "I don't think you ever sell a big paradigm shift," Meyer says. "It happens one application at a time...
...said publicly and forcefully that Pakistan should stop cross-border terrorism," he says. "Our Prime Minister took really radical initiatives in the past. There's no question of that now"?in other words, of actively looking for peace. An Indian army source adds that unless India detects that promised shift in militant activity and capability in the next five weeks, the military expects an order to attack...