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...After buying tickets, there's a second queue, longer and sometimes more costly. Security guards on watch for terrorists frisk bags and bodies at two separate checkpoints, confiscating anything from a long list of banned items, including tripods, mobile phones and video cameras. And if the guards don't get your equipment, the thieves might: pick-pockets work the lines, hoping to snatch some of the dazzling array of photographic technology on display. (Travelers' tip: stick black masking tape over the brand name on your camera...
...last winter, I passed the Hermit's house and saw him rolling on his back in the snow. The first time, I thought he was having a seizure. But it wasn't that. As I was about to run to his aid, I saw he was having a private frisk, as if he were trying to remember how to make snow angels...
...Will it hold up? The new Senate, to be sworn in Wednesday, will be a muscle-flexing ground for the angriest losers of the 2000 election: black groups. Jesse Jackson has already promised to come after "Frisk 'Em" Whitman and Ashcroft, whose civil-rights record conservatives call principled and liberals call horrendous. Whitman, cleverly shelved as an EPA appointee, will be had to nail. But Ashcroft, a justifiable bogeyman as the nation's top law enforcer, will severely test Senate Democrats' proclivities toward giving a smooth ride to a fellow club member. Will Ashcroft be the Clarence Thomas of this...
...Will it hold up? The new Senate, to be sworn in Wednesday, will be a muscle-flexing ground for the angriest losers of the 2000 election: black groups. Jesse Jackson has already promised to come after "Frisk 'Em" Whitman and Ashcroft, whose civil-rights record conservatives call principled and liberals call horrendous. Whitman, cleverly shelved as an EPA appointee, will be hard to nail. But Ashcroft, a justifiable bogeyman as the nation's top law enforcer, will severely test Senate Democrats' proclivities toward giving a smooth ride to a fellow club member. Will Ashcroft be the Clarence Thomas of this...
...quickly, from 150 undercover officers to nearly 400. Recruits were given only three days of intensive training. The unit belonged to no precinct and was based on one of the islets in the East River, isolated from every borough but having the freedom of the city to search, frisk and arrest. It had been tremendously successful. Though making up less than 2% of the police force, the SCU accounted for more than 20% of the city's gun arrests, reducing the number of weapons by more than 2,000. The murder rate plummeted. But the unit's arrests came...