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...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 didn't know what they'd got. With big robberies, that's more common than you might suppose. In a number of the most famous British heists - notably the Brinks Mat bullion raid at Heathrow airport in 1983, when thieves...
...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 Britain. Once inside, the gang tied up 14 staff members and started to load the loot into a white truck...
...believe in the free market as much as anyone. If you can get someone to believe you are so valuable that they'll pony up enough loot for you to pay cash for a summer house in Tuscany, by all means take it and don't ask a lot of questions. But it would be nice if the folks that Wall Street serves made out too-not like bandits, but like the hard-working and trusting investors that most of them are. The gut-wrenching comparison that best illustrates that something may be amiss: in 2005, the average diversified stock...
...novel by Iweala, a 23-year-old recent Harvard grad, a young boy is swept into a pitiless world. In an unnamed West African nation, the boy, called Agu, is seized by a band of rebel soldiers and initiated into their way of life. Soon enough he learns to loot, burn and butcher other humans like a man, all the while struggling not to become a heartbroken monster. He tells his story of unspeakable terror in a halting, not quite comprehending voice that will stay with you for a long time...
...believes the attack on the Spirit was carried out by pirates trying to loot the ship, rather than terrorists targeting its Western passengers. But the incident shows that pirates and terrorists share a willingness to use deadly force to achieve their aims. And since pirates make more money--the three big gangs of pirates suspected of working Somali waters now demand and often receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom, according to the Piracy Reporting Center's Choong--they are likely to go after bigger game. With their kidnapping revenues, pirates "can afford to buy themselves some pretty nice...