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...ferry at Port Angeles, Wash. It also explains why he was careless enough to leave a paper trail. Ressam's pockets produced a scrap of paper scribbled with the name "Ghani." That took the FBI to their next suspect, Abdel Ghani Meskini, an Algerian expatriate living in Brooklyn, N.Y. A snitch told the FBI that Meskini had said Ressam's instructions were to "take the explosive-laden vehicle to a parking lot and walk away from it," according to a federal complaint. And Ressam carried a phony credit card that led to Montreal shopkeeper Mokhtar Haouari, who, said a federal...
...last day in New York before heading for his new job, as diners in a Brooklyn restaurant sought him out with hugs and good-luck wishes, Crew reflected, "No matter how hard, it is worth it. Those of us who entered this field entered it with an eye toward actually making a difference in somebody else's life," he said. "This is public service in its purest form...
This is a story about boxes. In the world headquarters of the unorthodox literary journal McSweeney's--a Brooklyn, N.Y., duplex apartment strewn with printouts, antique books and sporting goods--Dave Eggers is considering the structural integrity of a Dunkin' Donuts box. There's been a snag with issue No. 4, consisting of 14 exquisitely designed miniature books. It's supposed to come in a sturdy custom box, but the prototype won't close, and the printer--which is, no kidding, in Iceland--is scrambling for a replacement. Now, say editor Eggers and editor at large Sean Wilsey, munching...
Posh Spice [OCCUPATION:] Singer [WHAT HAPPENED:] A criminal gang plotted to kidnap Posh and son Brooklyn [SUGGESTED PUNISHMENT:] Granting Posh naming rights to gang's children...
...these people? While researching Great Plains, Frazier met and became friends with Le War Lance, a Sioux man with colorful if not always credible stories of his own exploits and of his people back at Pine Ridge. Before long, Frazier moved his wife and two small children from a Brooklyn apartment to a house in Missoula, Mont., and then began regularly driving the 780 miles to Pine Ridge to visit Lance...