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...300th anniversary of Harvard College, in September 1968, the bell rang 300 times early in the morning, before the usual 9 a.m. bell. On Sept. 11, 2001, the bell tolled to call the University to a multi-faith vigil for the lives lost as a result of the terrorist attack, according to the Harvard Gazette...
According to two CNN/Gallup polls, 24 percent of Americans believed in April 2000 that a loved one could be killed on American soil in a terrorist attack; in July 2005, that number had grown to 47 percent. That’s pessimism, and, probably, the foremost characteristic associated with Jews—other than “the nose”—is their pessimism...
...Bush Administration seems apoplectic over the revelations in November about the CIA's secret network of terrorist-interrogation prisons and the disclosure in the New York Times last month that the President authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop on the phone calls of some Americans without a warrant. The latter report was also in State of War, a book by Times reporter James Risen, who drew scathing condemnation from CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck last week. She charged that Risen "demonstrates an unfathomable and sad disregard for U.S. national security and those who take life-threatening risks...
...Terror Olympics Your story on Steven Spielberg's new movie, Munich, described the film as "so sensitive it was kept under wraps" [Dec. 12]. What's so sensitive? The terrorist massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics and Israel's response were credibly addressed in the 1986 movie Sword of Gideon. Still, I look forward to seeing Spielberg's moviemaking talents brought to bear on this story of terrorism and a nation's legitimate response. Sensitive or not, the movie?if it's good?will sell itself. Chris Krisinger Colonel, U.S.A.F. Burke, Virginia...
...disappointed to learn that Spielberg considered the heart of his movie to be a fictionalized incident in which a Palestinian terrorist engages in a civil discussion with an Israeli. By rewriting history to humanize the terrorists, Spielberg misses the whole point of the Munich massacre. If the terrorists had been inclined to make their case rationally, the all-too-real atrocities perpetrated against the Israeli national team at the 1972 Olympics would never have occurred. Aharon Shifron-Ronnie Concord, California...