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...unarmored van was stolen when the driver stopped to buy a newspaper only a short distance from 3M Security Printing and Systems Ltd, which produces the new electronic passports. The robber jumped into the van and forced the second deliveryman in the passenger seat to lower his head onto the dashboard before assaulting him. He drove a short distance in the van and ran off with the boxes of documents, presumably with the help of an accomplice. The victim suffered minor injuries to his head and shoulders. This was a traumatic experience for the passenger, said police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thousands of UK Passports Stolen | 7/29/2008 | See Source »

...lives in the Denver area, he is little known there outside business circles, and he forbids interviewers to ask about his wife Leslie or their two children. A benevolent boss and a passionate sailor, Malone once painstakingly restored a turn-of-the century commuter boat that had ferried robber barons along the Hudson River. Among the few personal touches in his office are a working model of an 1854 America's Cup racer and a replica of his own yacht, the Leslie Ann. Employees call him ''Doctor'' for the Ph.D. in operations research that he earned at Johns Hopkins. ''Malone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WIRED! | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...school principals or with drug dealers and former drug dealers on park benches.”Canada focused on how kids in cities willingly turn to the drug trade at an early age, when no jobs and no other opportunities exist. “When we played cops and robbers, nobody wanted to be the police. Everyone wanted to be a robber,” the South Bronx native said. “There was a culture where you would absorb this without any philosophical discussion.”Adorned in her Boston police uniform, Baston offered a different perspective...

Author: By Alec E Jones, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'The Wire' Conducts Discussion | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...Still, Romney’s resume reads “robber baron” to some. When Romney ran against Sen. Edward M Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) in 1994, Kennedy skewered the newbie with TV ads blasting Romney over an Indiana company’s layoffs prompted by then owner, Bain Capital. (Romney was on leave from Bain during the firings...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: The Real Romney | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

...voice. Warshow held that the classic movie mobsters (Little Caesar, The Public Enemy) were, in their essence, classic Americans forced by their status as the sons of immigrants to seek success and status outside the law, even though their style and motives were not so very different from the robber barons who found their riches in more respectable industries. The difference between the gangsters and, say, John D. Rockefeller, was that their methods of eliminating the competition was, shall we say, somewhat more strenuous, and that ultimately they paid a deadly price for their depredations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Gangster: Seductive Crime | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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