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...Nordic Inn Medieval Brew & Bed in Crosby, Minn., opened five years ago and prides itself on immersing guests in a 10th century experience. The rooms are decorated with shields and armor; some beds are shaped like longships. Instead of the usual complimentary robe and cloth slippers, guests at the Nordic receive handmade Viking outfits with horned helmets and leather slippers. Entertainment includes a rowdy candlelit dinner with a floor show based on Nordic mythology. Owner Richard Edward Schmidthuber, who got the idea after people cheered the Viking costume he wore to a football game, says he intentionally made the place...
...looked like most of those who had stayed had been deputized into black jumpsuits and menacing body armor. Swarms of police clotted by the dozen at checkpoints. At the Hilton, where president Bush held several meetings with foreign leaders, the perimeter was rimmed with guards standing so close it looked like they were posing for a group photo. Over-head, American F-16s protected the air space and Wednesday, George Bush moved his speech from the offices of Radio Free Europe at the last minute because of an unspecified threat...
Costumes were on display throughout the building—corseted dresses, armor with ornate battle helmets and formal Victorian ensembles...
...lengths to which desperate authorities went in an effort to catch the snipers. At the height of the Beltway crisis, fbi sources tell Time, the bureau's elite hostage-rescue team secretly paired with local swat teams and scattered around the region in unmarked cars. Clad in body armor and equipped with night-vision gear and secure radios, the groups were prepared to race to the scene of a shooting and arrest the killers. They never got their chance. But the increased use of these federal-local tactical teams may be one of the positive byproducts of the sniper case...
...Chopra knows something I don’t, I guess I’d better dust off the old suit of armor. Otherwise, come Nov. 7, I’ll roll out of bed at 8 am, just as I do every Thursday morning, and brace myself for the simplicity of preregistration...