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...Despite its deficiencies, of course, the new aviation security bill represents a victory for all travelers who are concerned about safety. We may just have to be patient as we wait for lingering shortfalls to be addressed; airtight federal guidelines don?t happen overnight, after all - or even in two months...
Those investigating Sept. 11 have been asking themselves that same question: Should they do what American law enforcers have been trained to do--work methodically to build airtight cases against the perpetrators of crimes--or shift their efforts instead to preventing future terrorist plots? It is a difficult question--quickly snaring a suspect means you can't watch him conspire and may not uncover all his confederates--but any debate over it within federal law-enforcement agencies ended Thursday. That evening the President told a prime-time TV audience that "the FBI must think differently." Attorney General John Ashcroft told...
...Those investigating Sept. 11 have been asking themselves that same question: Should they do what American law enforcers have been trained to do - work methodically to build airtight cases against the perpetrators of crimes - or shift their efforts instead to preventing future terrorist plots? It is a difficult question - quickly snaring a suspect means you can't watch him conspire and may not uncover all his confederates - but any debate over it within federal law-enforcement agencies ended Thursday. That evening the President told a prime-time TV audience that "the FBI must think differently." Attorney General John Ashcroft told...
...Chateau Monte Cristo was haunted by many ghostwriters, and that its author signed his name to more books than anyone could ever write. ?Tis not expected of Pharaoh that he build with his own hands his own pyramids. But the mere blueprint of one Dumas plot is an airtight alibi for a whole career. Of all these, out of question the most gloriously complex, possibly the most impossible, a mathematical miracle, as perfect as watchworks and as big as Pittsburgh, among hundreds one Dumas plot persists as the most ingenious tall story ever perpetrated by the mind...
...four New Jersey lines can score and play airtight defense. Brodeur always raises his game a notch above his usual self, and he has already performed well enough to take home the Vezina Trophy this year. Brian Rafalski and Scott Niedermayer are playing as well as Bourque and Blake, the other Colorado star offensive defenseman...