Word: marshals
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...Cars With Boys is well-founded. The story is real and gritty—what could, given the right turns of phrase—be the stuff of a great autobiographical novel, but what is perhaps too pedestrian for the film’s slate. Unless director Penny Marshal pulls out all cinematographic stops and carries the film on aesthetic sails alone, the prognosis for Riding in Cars looks grim. At the very least, their pusillanimous, even deceitful, refusal to submit to critical treatment will be a self-fulfilling prophesy of sorts. It is a telegraph to intelligent film consumers...
...think that pilots—many of whom have no experience with close range weaponry—will be effective deterrents to terrorists after a few weeks at FBI training camp. Quite frankly, it scares me to think that on my next flight home to Los Angeles, an air marshal may be sitting next to me with his finger on a trigger. With that image in mind, it is downright terrifying to think of an inexperienced, armed pilot. We hire pilots to fly planes, not to guard them...
HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL Want a job that will fly you to exotic places every day and allow you to carry a gun on board to protect your fellow passengers? Then apply to be a civil-aviation security specialist, better known as a federal air marshal. More than 100,000 people have already downloaded the FAA's online job application at jobs.faa.gov And by the way, don't bother applying if you're over 40--or can't keep a secret. time.com/airmarshal...
Surely the expense of placing at least one armed air marshal on each plane, reinforcing cockpit doors and instituting thorough and efficient screenings of passengers before they board is a small enough price to pay for air-travel safety. Americans should not have to fear and avoid flying! N. HARRY GARTZMAN Philadelphia...
...known for its stability or its comfort,” University Marshal Richard M. Hunt explained during Neil L. Rudenstine’s 1991 installation...