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NAME: N.Y.C. cabbies OCCUPATION: Tolerating rude passengers FIRST PUNCH: Five taxi drivers sped past as Glover and his daughter tried to hail a cab in Harlem; a driver who did stop tried to prevent the 6-ft. 4-in. actor from sitting in the front seat, which has more legroom...
Still, officials acknowledge, the mishandling law is flawed. Says a veteran espionage-law specialist: "If you prosecuted people for leaving classified documents in a men's room or a cab or at home, you'd end up prosecuting every GS-7 clerk and secretary in the government." As a matter of policy, to avoid negative court decisions that could make it harder to try full-fledged espionage cases, the Justice Department has rarely invoked the statute...
...Still, officials acknowledge, the mishandling law is flawed. Says a veteran espionage-law specialist: "If you prosecuted people for leaving classified documents in a men's room or a cab or at home, you'd end up prosecuting every GS-7 clerk and secretary in the government." As a matter of policy, to avoid negative court decisions that could make it harder to try full-fledged espionage cases, the Justice Department has rarely invoked the statute. Lee's lawyer, Mark Holscher, is underwhelmed. "It is unfortunate that unnamed sources appear to be attempting to use the press to revive this...
Prosecutors said the summer school student--a sixteen-year old native of Puerto Rico--missed the last train from the Boston College train stop back to Harvard Square last Thursday. When she walked to the street and tried to hail a cab at around 12:30 am, Wodja offered her a ride back to Harvard...
Almost 24 hours later, after a 275-mile trip and an $800 cab fare to Las Vegas, Furrow calmly turned himself in to federal authorities and allegedly heralded his shooting spree as "a wake-up call to America to kill Jews." In a year in which mass killings have ravaged every place from high schools to stock-trading floors, Furrow exposed a new area of vulnerability: day-care centers. Furthermore, he refocused attention on America's geography of violent intolerance, one that emerged from the shadows after the attack on Oklahoma City and this time came out of the woods...