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...Paducah or Springfield or Littleton, there is no crack FBI team waiting around the block. The crisis falls to local officers who are more like SWAT reservists, training together once in a while and spending the rest of their days minding what is often a sleepy suburban community -- until terror flares. They do their best; certainly the team that waded into hell last Tuesday saved hundreds of young lives. Can all of America's cops be ready for the worst to happen at any time? Probably not. But Shannon thinks if the apparent epidemic of school violence...
...always commanded attention. Even as a first-grader, he would go over to neighbor kids' homes and crack jokes that made parents chuckle. He often sketched, and people thought he would one day be a cartoonist, maybe--something special. But no one was ready for Tom's next act. Not even...
...technology is finally allowing individuals to make good use of that right, the government seems to be changing its mind. New techniques of encryption--the making of codes--allow personal computers to encode documents in ways that are difficult or sometimes impossible for the most advanced super computers to crack. These technologies, for the first time in recent memory, allow private individuals to hide their documents from government view. In response, the Clinton Administration has proposed new means of restricting the right to privacy...
...HUPD guard reported that he saw four people loitering near the Kennedy School of Government who he suspected of smoking crack. Officers responded and questioned two males and two female suspects, A small quantity of a class-d controlled substance, which officers reported was likely marijuana, was destroyed at the scene. The suspects were given a verbal trespass warning...
Even as it ad-libbed adjustments, the West, led by President Clinton, put on a brave face, insisting the alliance's unity, patience and determination would not crack. "Just remember, everybody, we knew we were going to take some hits on this," Clinton reminded his inner circle. "We knew this going in, so we've got to stay the course." But outside the White House, it was hard to understand what "the course" now was. As bombs kept falling, refugees kept fleeing and Milosevic refused to budge, it was no longer clear what a NATO victory would look like...