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...began harmlessly enough when he laid a picturesque model-train track in his backyard; his wife's pretty tulips remained intact for the most part. Then he decided that the trains needed indoor storage, and he ran the track into the barn. After that he added rails over the driveway, and before long, he was digging a 4-ft.-wide strip across the yard. From there the park has kept growing and growing. "It's just, as we started building things and we kept going, I couldn't figure out a place to stop. As I sit here and work...
...officials were proved right last week when a car bomb exploded in the driveway of the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta, leaving 10 dead and 150 wounded. Within days, police said they had identified the bomber--by virtue of a severed head recovered from the building. But could more have been done to prevent the attack? A source close to the investigation says four JI suspects arrested in the Semarang raid identified the Marriott as one of many potential targets. Police insist they tightened security around those targets, but Marriott managers say they were left in the dark...
...Jakarta paid the price for that helplessness?or perhaps haplessness?in the face of terror on Aug. 5 when a car bomb exploded in the driveway of the Marriott, killing at least 10 and wounding some 150. Within days, police had announced that they had identified a suspected JI member as the bomber. As in the case of the Bali bombings, the swift response has drawn wide praise. But serious questions remain about just how much more police might have done to prevent the attack in the first place. The latest blast is also a grim reminder that...
...with a sponge. He seemed hesitant, cowed by the task. On the front seat of the Lincoln lay the crushed red roses that Jackie Kennedy had been carrying. It was a certain and brutal end to a great national drama, but none of the people milling around on the driveway of Parkland Hospital that day wanted to allow the curtain to fall. Yet we knew...
...even then, Thompson wouldn’t have known the half of it. He couldn’t have. Sure, anyone who ever practiced last-second fadeaway jumpers in his front driveway dreams of performances like Merchant’s on Saturday. But that isn’t even the half...