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IP: Life during wartime


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:56:39 -0400


From: "Hiawatha Bray" <watha () monitortan com>
To: <farber () cis upenn edu>

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001363

There's been a lot of handwringing about proposed limits on our liberties
during the war on terrorism.  In this fascinating article, historian Jay
Winik points out that nothing being proposed by the most hawkish among us
comes close to being as repressive as the measures that Americans accepted
with scarcely a peep of protest in earlier wars.

Hiawatha Bray
Boston Globe


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