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Britain's biggest ever cash robbery, some $93 million stolen from a depot, prompted a huge manhunt last week. Local police first said the theft had been "executed with military precision." Really? Now it looks more like a comedy of errors. Future tips: DON'T FORGET THE BLINDFOLDS: Gang members posed as bogus cops to kidnap Securitas manager Colin Dixon and his family. But without a blindfold, Dixon was able to provide a composite image of the man who abducted him, whose beard (believed to be fake) was a different color from his hair. DON'T LEAVE CASH LYING AROUND...
...ongoing discussion of curriculum reform has produced very smart papers by distinguished faculty members, from a variety of perspectives, on the goals of liberal education. And the self-proclaimed “Gang of Four” suggested an offering of rigorous survey courses. The report produced by the curriculum review didn’t reflect those concerns. But maybe the controversy over Summers’ departure provides the chance to look at this particular issue anew...
...road. Two other fake cops went to the man's house, where they told his wife and young son that Dixon had been involved in an accident. All three were then taken to a safe house where the family was threatened and Dixon forced to cooperate. After midnight, the gang took Dixon to a depot in nearby Tonbridge, run by Securitas, a company that handles about 40% of the cash deposits made in the U.K. Once inside, the gang tied up 14 staff members and started to load the loot into a white truck. It's a racing certainty they...
...days after the Securitas job, there was a copycat raid in Belfast, where a gang held a bank employee's wife and child hostage while they rifled the safe. But don't expect all this to start a trend. Among villains, bank raids are old hat. The tricky thing about robbing banks is, you have to actually go somewhere (risking witnesses and closed-circuit-television cameras) and steal things that have a real weight and presence, like jewels or money. These days, it's easier and safer by far to sit in some semitropical Margaritaville, fire up the laptop...
...CAPTURED. YOUSSOUF FOFANA, 26, self-styled "brain of barbarians" and alleged leader of a Parisian gang accused of abducting and torturing to death Ilan Halimi, 23; in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Halimi, who was Jewish, was found Feb. 13 in the banlieue of Bagneux with extensive chemical burns, bruises and cuts; he died on the way to the hospital. More than a dozen people are in French custody and under questioning about their alleged roles in the crime, which a magistrate has deemed anti-Semitic. France has demanded Fofana's extradition...