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...When you consider we transport 1.2 million people a day on our system, the number of crimes that occur on our system is incredibly low,” said Joseph O’Connor, deputy chief of the MBTA Transit Police...
There is no doubt that the chief priority of Washington must be vigorously tackling unemployment. Arguably, this should have been done a year ago. Unfortunately, even if the Senate passes a comprehensive job bill this week, as Obama asked it to, we won’t see many of its effects for some time. The bill is likely to be passed piecemeal, and Obama will have to fight with moderate Democrats every step of the way. In the meantime, the president must do a better job of showing average Americans that he’s fighting for them...
...Ronald Haddad, the police chief of Dearborn, is leading an investigation that could result in charges of excessive force or even murder against FBI agents. Either Kym Worthy, Wayne County's top prosecutor, or Michigan attorney general Mike Cox will ultimately determine whether to file charges. Department of Justice officials are also reviewing the case. "This is a very unique case," says Haddad. "Our mission right now is to ensure a fair, objective, honest evaluation of what took place...
...only company charged, along with the firm's former welder John Taylor, who fixed the titanium strip to the Continental DC-10, and his supervisor Stanley Ford. The French are also going after their own. In the same trial, Concorde's former head of testing Henri Perrier and former chief engineer Jacques Herubel as well as France's retired civil aviation chief Claude Frantzen are also charged with involuntary manslaughter for having failed to detect and fix faults in the aircraft that investigators believe contributed to the crash. If found guilty, the individuals may face prison terms...
...army says it has no intention of re-entering politics. Chief of Army Staff Lieut. General Abdulrahman Danbazu - who is known to differ from his predecessors in his enthusiasm for a junta - addressed the rumors of a possible military takeover this week, saying he wished to "dismiss the unnecessary, unwarranted and inflammatory comments circulating which suggest a coup might be needed to pull the country out of a constitutional crisis in Yar'Adua's absence. A military coup would be akin to dragging us back to the dark days of our nation's history." He acknowledged, however, that "there...