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...Hughes brothers parachute us into the narrative around the time of the first incident, where real-life Inspector Frederick Abberline—played, accent and all, by Johnny Depp—is assigned to lead the investigation into what would became infamously known as the Ripper Murders. What the Hughes fictionalize is Jack’s targeting of a group of six sisterly “unfortunates”—one of whom is Heather Graham—in Whitechapel, tempting them with grapes and dulling their senses with laudanum-laced absinthe before doing the ghastly deed. He?...
...from empathetic Rudy wrapping a sorrowful widow in his hunched shoulders to traffic warden in a New York minute, barring single-occupancy cars from downtown bridges and tunnels into Manhattan during rush hour. On a typical day last week, he found simple words to console the two children of Inspector Anthony Infante at St. Teresa's in the morning, then managed the ego of the Rev. Jesse Jackson as he took advantage of Giuliani's media entourage to nominate himself negotiator in chief. In the evening, Giuliani called on a stricken crowd at Temple Emanu-El to stand and applaud...
...everyone was welcome, though, according to Solano. Cairnie excluded many from the store. This might have been nice for the writers and poets, but the general public felt abused. “Cairnie was quite high-handed for someone who had started out as a potato inspector in Quebec,” remembers Solano. The harsh tongue of Cairnie had lashed many, and he was known for only wanting to associate with individuals who were wealthy, famous or from Harvard. If the person was female, he preferred that she be attractive and the wife of one of the writers...
...from empathetic Rudy wrapping a sorrowful widow in his hunched shoulders to traffic warden in a New York minute, barring single-occupancy cars from downtown bridges and tunnels into Manhattan during rush hour. On a typical day last week, he found simple words to console the two children of Inspector Anthony Infante at St. Teresa's in the morning, then managed the ego of the Rev. Jesse Jackson as he took advantage of Giuliani's media entourage to nominate himself negotiator in chief. In the evening, Giuliani called on a stricken crowd at Temple Emanu-El to stand and applaud...
...when and who pays for it? Most of the major U.S. airports have an advanced $1 million CTX scanning machine that can detect explosives. The problem is, these units are not used all that often and are reserved primarily for so-called suspicious bags. In March 2000, DOT Assistant Inspector General Alexis Stefani told a congressional committee that more than half the powerful machines were screening fewer than 225 bags a day, despite the fact that they are capable of scanning that many in just an hour...