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...fourth wife of her husband, Chuck Hunt. She got embroiled in a nasty fight with two Turnpike Authority board members she tried to fire for voting against a toll increase. She was tainted by a patronage scandal at her former employer, Massport and was put on the spot for lax oversight when two of the Sept. 11 terrorists sailed through Logan Airport security. And when the economy went south last year it took the state budget with it, leaving her with a huge shortfall...
Moreover, Horowitz cleverly explained, “You can’t fight suitcase bombs with missiles.” The Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) is also to blame for lax protection against terrorism. Six months after Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi flew two jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Florida flight school that trained the men received paperwork showing that their student visas had been approved. How is it possible that terrorists were able to enter the country on tourist visas and be trained without the paperwork to stay? This is a strong indication that...
...Simply locating an illegal Internet site can be difficult. Pirates can stay one step ahead of the law by storing digital movies on rented servers in countries where copyright enforcement is lax, and it is not difficult to move the operation to another locale if the cops are on your tail. When first informed of the existence of Movie88.com, Taiwanese police initially insisted the site was physically located in the U.S. state of Virginia, not Taiwan...
...first spring semester outing. Our group of 18—law students, a few graduate students, two other undergraduates and even a law professor—had traveled 45 minutes north of Cambridge, across the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border to take advantage of the Granite State’s lax firing range laws (which allow anyone to fire weapons on the range without background checks, waiting periods or even basic sobriety tests) and to enjoy a peaceful (and early) Sunday morning shooting the hell out of stationary targets...
Later on, as I looked back upon a day in which I had awoke with a vicious hangover, traveled across state lines to exploit lax gun laws, dulled my senses by firing many absurdly big and loud guns and, finally, sated my animal hunger with bloody meat, I could not help but think that, for one day, I had lived the American dream. With a vengeance...