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They won just one medal at the Torino Olympics and the shipping company P&O, which once held the Empire together, has been sold to an Arab sheikdom, but the British still lead the world in heists. Since the Great Train Robbery in 1963, a succession of raids - each seemingly...
The film's title announces its intentions. It's a collision, an L.A. pileup, of people and prejudices. The dozen-plus major characters include cops, thugs, politicians, strugglers and stragglers, the rich and the poor of all ethnicities--the melting pot that bubbles over in the film's schematic, 36...
“I saw cops in the entryway,” she said. “I knew something was up because of that. I saw two cops and this other guy in a suit—I didn’t know who he was. I was just...
The business started with what is known in the trade as a "tiger kidnapping." (The tiger, see, stalks its prey.) Colin Dixon, 51, the manager of a security depot that stores money for commercial banks and the Bank of England, was driving past the Three Squirrels pub in Kent, southeast...
It is also the first time they are suffering substantial casualties. Women troops make up nearly 15% of active-duty service members. Since 2003, 48 women have died in Iraq--just 2% of the total number of U.S. troops killed but far more than the 8 nurses killed out of...