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...Police bosses counter that they are being criticized merely for being better shots than the Mafia. They add that none of the hundreds of complaints alleging staged shoot-outs or executions filed by victims' relatives or human-rights groups?or even a handful of official inquiries?has ever led to a conviction for extrajudicial killing. "The allegations of fake encounters are baseless," says Pradeep Sawant, Bombay's deputy police commissioner. "It's not that we always go to kill. Our idea is to arrest the gangsters. We only retaliate if we're fired upon...
Faced with that stagnation, a federal commission investigating intelligence failures recommended last month that domestic counterterrorism responsibilities be taken away from the FBI and given to a proposed National Counter Terrorism Center. Says former Virginia Governor James Gilmore, who chaired the commission: "There is a sense that there needs to be a new agency." Modeled on Britain's domestic-security outfit, the MI5, the agency would bring together counterterrorism specialists from the FBI, the CIA and other government agencies. The Bush Administration is studying the idea, but at least one government official has publicly denounced it: this month Mueller insisted...
Thanks to what seems an infinite number of ways to earn frequent-flyer miles--debit cards, long distance calls, grocery-counter promotions and the like--Americans have trillions more such credits than ever before. According to Randy Peterson, publisher of InsideFlyer.com there were 7.9 trillion unused miles floating around at the end of 2001. The '02 numbers aren't in yet, but that's still a staggering six times as many as existed a decade earlier...
Harvard will counter with its own much-decorated skater in captain Jennifer Botterill. Botterill—who on Monday was named ECAC Player of the Week for the third time this season—scored both goals in the Crimson’s 2-1 overtime triumph over No. 6 Providence. Botterill leads the nation in points per game (3.30), goals per game (1.60) and is tied for first in assists per game with Ruggiero...
...addition to attention to defense and poise, Harvard will look to create a balanced attack to counter its previous habit of turning to low-percentage shots when feeling frantic...