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...anthrax scares to the tragic events of Sept. 11--unless you count the fact that a man suspected of involvement with hijackers had a paid subscription to the Globe, an American Media tabloid. The newly opened FBI investigation into the NBC incident is independent, so far, of the probe in Boca Raton. But at least two of the incidents appear to be related: the letter to the Times and one of two sent to NBC both had St. Petersburg, Fla., postmarks, and both were addressed in a similar unsteady scrawl. Neither appeared to contain anthrax, however; the infectious letter...
...about the Ripper, more than the combined total written about American presidents), the formation remains staggeringly and exceptionally mediocre. Right down the center, the film is middling; From Hell doesn’t present the intrigue or the hysteria surrounding the killings with any emotive force, nor does it probe the murderer’s sociopath psyche in any telling detail. It’s a thriller that rarely excites, a mystery that doesn’t intrigue and since we know already that Jack is the culprit, the tale is less of a “whodunit?...
...guess? The short selling, as it's called, of airline and insurance stocks just before the attack has prompted a chilling theory: betting against his victims is Osama bin Laden's latest fund-raising tactic. An international investigation is underway, part of a broader probe to figure out how bin Laden finances his network...
Some of Ashcroft's requests, like the ones making it easier to probe money laundering, are less controversial and face easier passage. Senator Patrick Leahy, who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee, has issued a package of alternative proposals that could also provide a basis for compromise. Hearings on Ashcroft's legislation are scheduled for this week not only by Leahy's mostly moderate committee but also by the argumentative House Judiciary Committee, a body divided between conservatives like Barr and Henry Hyde and ultraliberals like Conyers and Barney Frank. Then again, there may not be that many arguments. This...
...Taylor, a field engineer for an elevator company, said at Los Angeles airport on Friday. With bomb-sniffing dogs roaming the terminals, airline personnel asking pointed questions and armed guards holding machine guns, taking off will invariably take a lot longer. "If they don't open this bag and probe it, I'll be worried," said a traveler, Paul Pereda, an electrician from Woodbridge...