Word: bauer
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...Actually, far more people watch 24-an addictive comic book of a show-than the serious films. There is an indomitable hero, Jack Bauer, who saves the world from evil with stunning regularity. But Bauer is different from pre-9/11 action heroes: he routinely and rather zestfully tortures people, which almost always results in the acquisition of crucial information. Indeed, whenever someone says, "Jack, you can't do that," the only reasonable viewer response is "Oh, shut up! Go for it, Jack." The show's message is not very subtle: We can win this war, but only...
...mission, but the psychological burden is crushing. And that is the point: this new form of warfare, imposed by Islamist fanatics-and utilized by Iraqi extremists in response to the U.S. invasion-is a sapping wound to a civilized society. The notion that there are heroic sociopaths like Jack Bauer who can carry the fight without severe psychological consequences is a fantasy. The flood of Iraq war veterans showing up at hospitals with post-traumatic stress disorder is testimony to that. The moral necessity to confront the terrorists is clear. But the war is going to be fought on their...
...Bauer says that "no information would indicate" Alpizar had any terrorist connections. But authorities plan to explore that possibility as the post-shooting investigation goes forward. "There will be two parallel investigations," he says. "First, the shooting will be investigated by Miami-Dade homicide investigators. Second, the FBI and federal air marshals are investigating whether this has any national security concern. Right now there's nothing to indicate any national security concern...
...marshals who were aboard the flight while his wife, Anne Buechner, tried to explain that Alpizar was ill and had not taken his medication. "When the incident began and he uttered something to the effect that he had a bomb, the federal air marshals came out of cover," Jim Bauer, special agent in charge of the Miami field office of the Federal Air Marshal Service, told TIME. "They identified themselves and ordered him to cease and desist." Some passengers deny that Alpizar said he had a bomb...
...officers followed Alpizar and killed him when he disobeyed orders to lie down and they believed him to be reaching into his bag. "The shooting occurred in the immediate vicinity of the front door of the aircraft, on the aircraft," Bauer says. "I don't think he had taken a seat." After the incident airport authorities inspected luggage on the plane and blew up at least two bags. No bomb was found...