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...arrests, British authorities, who have decades of experience dealing with terrorist bombings, were complaining to DHS about an excess of caution. More than one plane from London was turned back, and at least seven British Airways flights had to be canceled because U.S. officials took so long conducting background checks of passengers. "We understand the need for new security measures," says a British government representative. "But we are keen for the actions to impact as little as possible on passengers...
...there is no boss but the ocean. As we sped farther into the Gulf, Chris scrutinized the regional section of the paper. He wanted to see his friends’ names, he joked.I worked with the people who photographed and wrote that section. They had told me to run background checks on any shrimpers I rode with. Sure, sure, I said. But I had already met quite a few at the docks. They were quiet folk, mostly men in their 40s who were skinny and smoked a lot. I didn’t look them up.It was a sign...
...securities and white collar crime reporter for The Washington Post, Masters wisely begins her book by giving readers just enough background on Spitzer’s life. We learn of his competitive, brilliant family—“In one often-repeated tale, [Spitzer’s father] Bernard reduced Eliot, then about seven or eight, to tears during a game of Monopoly”—of his academic success, and of his time in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office...
...other hand, there’s something about sitting outside on a balmy California evening, munching on asparagus with wasabi mayonnaise and sniffing at a champagne flute to pick the precise flavors (the nose) out of the sparkly background that brings me home and sets me afire with passionate love for the California milieu...
...Bank of England list reveals that the suspects were of a diverse age-range - 17 to 35 - and social class background: drawn mostly from in and around London, their home neighborhoods ranged from leafy suburbs to inner city slums. Their professions included students, entrepreneurs, and perhaps most chilling, a Heathrow Airport security official. And their family circumstances ranged from single to newlyweds and new fathers...