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Those investigating Sept. 11 have been asking themselves that same question: Should they do what American law enforcers have been trained to do--work methodically to build airtight cases against the perpetrators of crimes--or shift their efforts instead to preventing future terrorist plots? It is a difficult question--quickly snaring a suspect means you can't watch him conspire and may not uncover all his confederates--but any debate over it within federal law-enforcement agencies ended Thursday. That evening the President told a prime-time TV audience that "the FBI must think differently." Attorney General John Ashcroft told...
...efforts seem a bit frantic, it may be because the bureau is stumbling along an unfamiliar path. Moving from prosecuting crimes with rock-solid evidence to preventing crimes with hardly any evidence necessitates a cultural shift. "The FBI's instinct is to guard intelligence that is turned up during the course of an investigation, because by making it public, they're potentially destroying their case," says L. Paul Bremer, chairman of Congress's National Commission on Terrorism...
...last half of the 20th century brought a remarkable shift in the center of gravity of English writing. So much of the new, best stuff was coming from what once had been the periphery of Empire: from Africa, India, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Australia. Naipaul's work was a major part of this process, as was that of an earlier Nobelist, the Australian Patrick White. Naipaul wrote with piercing insight and even tenderness about ignored areas of experience (lower-middle-class Trinidadian life, for instance, in A House for Mr. Biswas, 1961). What was more, when he decided to leave...
These courses will need to cater to students whose focus is in the humanities and social sciences, in a College where no natural science exams are required for admission. More importantly, the subjects of these courses should shift along with trends in research, maintaining a forward-looking perspective and giving students the ability to participate productively in future social debates...
TIME.com: Do reports that U.S. special forces are now operating inside Afghanistan signal a gear shift...