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...grabbing them," says a bureau official, "and trying to hold on to them until we can figure things out...We're playing protective defense. We can't let it happen again." Attorney General Robert Kennedy used the "spitting on the sidewalk" strategy--prosecuting small-time offenses to bag big-time suspects--against the Mob. But the strategy began to disappear in the 1970s, when criminal-justice priorities shifted to protecting citizens' rights. Ashcroft has brought it back; as of Friday, some 700 people had been locked up as result of the Sept. 11 investigation--and "a couple hundred" more...
With a performance that at one point had her in a giant black cloth bag with a Harvard lecturer, Yoko Ono surprised a sold-out crowd at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts last night...
...with remote interest in their firm. Internet start-ups distributed bouncy balls and T-shirts bearing their soon-to-be-forgotten logos. This year, the Office of Career Services (OCS), which runs on-campus recruiting, recieved around twenty cancellations for the career forum. Peng returned to Pfoho with a bag full of cheap pens...
...planes as free aid to the starving and displaced, they are now selling here or just over $1. Except to Americans. For them, the HDRs could be free. When a pair of Western journalists walked through the market, a kind- eyed, 70-year-old man ambled up. The yellow bag in his hands was emblazoned with the words: Gift from the United States of America. But the man could not read English, and he looked puzzled. Was the HDR ours, he inquired. He had heard the yellow bag had dropped out of an American plane. Did we want it back...
Further, Roosevelt hired William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan to assemble the OSS, a large mixed bag of talents that came to include, among others, Julia Child, the actor Sterling Hayden, the poet Archibald MacLeish, the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and three future directors of the CIA. Donovan, a Wall Street Republican who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor for combat in World War I, made the OSS hospitable to many communist agents. Much moral confusion flowed from the fact that Stalin, one of history's true monsters, was for the moment an ally. The Germans and Japanese never penetrated...