Recently, in a Washington Post op-ed, Mark Danner wrote: "However much we would like the [torture] scandal to be confined to the story of what was done in those isolated rooms on the other side of the world where interrogators plied their arts, and in the air-conditioned governme …

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Not so very long ago, we winced every time we saw someone with facial hair or a backpack. Average people were terrified of opening their mail for fear of getting a face full of anthrax. Those were perhaps our country's greatest days.

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Robert Scheer writes: A trillion dollars here, a trillion dollars there, and soon you're talking real money.

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The number of foreign visitors to the United States has plummeted since the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington because foreigners don't feel welcome, tourism professionals said Thursday.

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In a scene reminiscent of the Cartoon Network bomb scare that paralyzed the Boston area in January, police shut down a strip mall yesterday in this small western suburb after employees at a Bank of America branch mistook a botched fax for a bomb threat.

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We hear so much about the Patriot Act.. here's a regional version that conjures up some scary visions of a "Show me your papers!" society.

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