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Ten Years Later | Richard A. Clarke | The Atlantic Online | January/February 2005 |
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12:30 pm EST, Jan 9, 2005 |
"Then the second wave of al-Qaeda attacks hit America." A leading expert on counterterrorism imagines the future history of the war on terror. A frightening picture of a country still at war in 2011. This is a transcript of the Tenth Anniversary 9/11 Lecture
Sunday, September 11, 2011
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Professor Roger McBride Dean, Honored Guests, It is a great honor to be chosen to give this tenth-anniversary lecture. This year, more than at any other time since the beginning of the war on terror, I think we can see clearly how that war has changed our country. Now that the terror seems finally to have receded somewhat, perhaps we can begin to consider the steps necessary to return the United States to what it was before 9/11. To do so, however, we must be clear about what has happened over the past ten years. Thus tonight I will dwell on the history of the war on terror. Ten Years Later | Richard A. Clarke | The Atlantic Online | January/February 2005 |
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Ex-official tells of Homeland Security failures |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
12:29 pm EST, Jan 9, 2005 |
The government agency responsible for protecting the nation against terrorist attack is a dysfunctional, poorly managed bureaucracy that has failed to plug serious holes in the nation's safety net, the Department of Homeland Security's former internal watchdog warns. Asked what's wrong with the department, he said, "It's difficult to figure out where to start." Ex-official tells of Homeland Security failures |
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| Topic: Elections |
11:45 am EST, Jan 9, 2005 |
"It's going to be ugly," Joe Biden told Charlie Rose about the election. Defining Victory Down |
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| Topic: Society |
11:30 am EST, Jan 9, 2005 |
Hell is other people, we are told. But Allan Gurganus wrote that Heaven is other people, too -- just other other people. They may be annoying, loud, clumsy people who snap at you and take your money. But they remind you -- especially if you are sated and numb, as so many are at the holidays -- that you are alive and your senses work and you are part of something bigger than your cul-de-sac. It's a nice reminder to have. Even if only once a year. Winter People |
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11:17 am EST, Jan 9, 2005 |
See What Your Friends are Watching 1. Invite a few friends 2. Once they accept, you can see each other's ratings and suggest movies to each other. Both you and your Friends will see how one another rated movies. If you don't rate a movie your friends won't see it. NetFlix Friends |
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11:16 am EST, Jan 9, 2005 |
For the past four years, a lot of people have been obsessed with the movie "The Matrix." The movie, it seemed, dramatized a host of doubts and fears and fascinations, some half as old as time, some with a decent claim to be postmodern. To a lot of people, it looked like a fable: our fable. The Unreal Thing |
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| Topic: Games |
8:16 pm EST, Jan 8, 2005 |
20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets. 20Q.net |
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The Brotherhood of Pranks |
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| Topic: Arts |
7:30 pm EST, Jan 8, 2005 |
Kortenhof had heard of a high school where pranksters had put an automobile tire over the top of a thirty-foot flagpole, like a ring on a finger, and this seemed to him an impressive and elegant and beautiful feat that we at our high school ought to try to duplicate. The Brotherhood of Pranks |
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| Topic: Health and Wellness |
7:29 pm EST, Jan 8, 2005 |
It began with a cough. Her brother had a cough. And, after all, what was a cough? They had all had them. In winter, they passed them around like sweets. An Enlarged Heart |
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| Topic: Health and Wellness |
7:26 pm EST, Jan 8, 2005 |
We were in Linc's car, an aging yellow Mercedes sedan, big and steady, with slippery blond seats and a deep, strumming idle. Lincoln called it Dr. Diesel. A deer. At first, he was only a suggestion of an animal, emerging from the darkness by degrees: a muzzle, a sharp left eye. Then the headlights grasped him. Have you seen the movie "Seabiscuit"? Did you read the book? This is the personal story of the author, Laura Hillenbrand. A Sudden Illness |
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