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...went in an effort to catch the snipers. At the height of the Beltway crisis, fbi sources tell Time, the bureau's elite hostage-rescue team secretly paired with local swat teams and scattered around the region in unmarked cars. Clad in body armor and equipped with night-vision gear and secure radios, the groups were prepared to race to the scene of a shooting and arrest the killers. They never got their chance. But the increased use of these federal-local tactical teams may be one of the positive byproducts of the sniper case...
...call the police until about 5 a.m. At that time, I was on the steps of the building; I wasn’t inside. I remember the police pushed people aside on the steps and started pulling people out of the building. They came in with their riot gear, masks and billy clubs. All of the freshman boys, who lived in the Yard, were just looking out their windows. They had locked us all in there at that point—they had locked the gates to the Yard...
...biggest advantage to checking out this weekend’s new schmuckbusters is that everyone can get their Yuletide spirit in gear, and a full three weeks before Turkey Day to boot. This is because one of the illustrious films is The Santa Clause 2. Though the public wasn’t exactly picketing for a sequel to the 1994 original, the sparkly $145 million that the film cashed in at the U.S. box office was enough for our friends at Disney to ask funnyman Tim Allen to put on his fat suit once again. But as Santa rushes...
...called father of Pakistan's Bomb. As head of the nation's nuclear program, he made the Ghauri as a carbon copy of North Korea's Nodong missile, say U.S. officials. Khan is believed to have established front companies and smuggling operations to gather and sell nuclear gear and blueprints. Musharraf forced his resignation as the lab's leader 18 months...
...confused by Rohit Chopra ’04 (Op-ed, Oct. 16) on our preregistration system. He describes it as a battle, with students waking before dawn to prep for war. As someone who has preregistered for classes since the fall of 1999, I must admit that my battle gear is still in storage at home in New Jersey...