Each Murder Is One Too Many.

A Threatened Nation Can React To Uncertain Dangers Solely Through Administrative Channels, To The Truly Embarrassing Situation Of Perhaps Overreacting

I Consider Bush's Decision To Call For A War Against Terrorism A Serious Mistake. He Is Elevating These Criminals To The Status Of War Enemies, And One Cannot Lead A War Against A Network If The Term War Is To Retain Any Definite Meaning.

The Speaker Must Choose A Comprehensible Expression So That Speaker And Hearer Can Understand One Another.

What Was New Was The Symbolic Force Of The Targets Struck. The Attackers Did Not Just Physically Cause The Highest Buildings In Manhattan To Collapse; They Also Destroyed An Icon In The Household Imagery Of The American Nation.

As Medium For Reaching Understanding, Speech Acts Serve: A) To Establish And Renew Interpersonal Relations, Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The World Of Legitimate Social Orders; B) To Represent States And Events, Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The World Of Existing States Of Affairs; C) To Manifest Experiences That Is, To Represent Oneself- Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The Subjective World To Which He Has Privileged Access.