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...kidnappers' initial deadlines passed late last week, Pearl's family and friends clung to the hope that his cool head, innate charm and intelligence would protect him from further harm. "Danny's incredibly resourceful," said Nick Noyes, a friend of Pearl's from his days at the Massachusetts paper North Adams Transcript. "If anyone can get himself out of a mess like this, he can." But Pearl had been caught up in a new wave of anti-American terror, one that doesn't seem to follow any script. His friends and colleagues could do little more than wait...
...that may change, as government and industry efforts converge to protect a staple of the U.S. economy: easy credit. Sept. 11 underscored the ways that terrorists use identity theft to slip into U.S. society and fund their operations. Investigators have linked several suspects to credit-card fraud, including the two men with box cutters who were arrested on a train Sept. 12. The terrorist convicted last year in a 1999 plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport used 13 identities lifted from the membership files of a Boston health club. Potential losses in Secret Service investigations jumped from...
...Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) finally have their chance to push this legislation through Congress. As they do, they should resist as many amendments as possible to stay true to the McCain-Feingold bill—the Senate version—and thereby protect it from entering a conference committee, where it may never again see the light...
...there's a civil-military piece to this whole thing. If a guy grows a crop and takes it across a mountain, and he takes it to market and he sells it, but coming back from the sale he gets robbed, and the government can't do anything to protect him, then there's a problem. So what we want to do is look at the bigger picture and say, okay, how do you stop all those things? You're always going to have bandits in this part of the world, just like we have bandits in our part...
With the key to his—no, make that his newly-licensed younger sister’s—car, off we go, urgently brainstorming questions. He struggles to hold to hold back a SNL Jesse Jackson imitation: “Respect me, protect me, do not neglect me.” She struggles to get down the questions she’s sure they won’t have a chance to ask. He starts humming “I’m sorry Ms. Jackson.” Off to see Mr. Jackson—is this...