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DUBLIN: Robbery Ruckus Fallout from Ireland's largest cash heist ever has officials and security personnel fending off allegations of bumbling. On Jan. 24, two jeeps burst through the fence of the Brink's-Allied depot in northern Dublin. The five masked occupants, encountering no resistance, bagged $4.2 million and sped away. Following Justice Ministry assurances that all precautions had been taken to prevent such a raid, embarrassing revelations emerged. Not only did police fail to beef up surveillance after a warning that a security-company robbery was being planned, but when the theft took place, most of the Brink...
...callers, got a dose of his own malice last fall. Frank Lautenberg, the New Jersey Democratic Senator who was in a bitter race with Republican and frequent Grant guest Chuck Haytaian, ran ads stating that "Grant calls blacks savages, and called Martin Luther King a scumbag." A tri-state ruckus ensued, with New Jersey Republican Governor Christine Whitman declaring she would no longer appear on Grant's show and citizens calling for the host's scalp and other body parts. But all the heat didn't hurt him. Whitman was soon back on the show. Grant achieved his highest ratings...
When the diplomatic equivalent of a bar fight threatened to break out last week in the United Nations Security Council, Bill Clinton's most outspoken foreign-policy official unblinkingly held her own. The ruckus was touched off by Saddam Hussein's chief emissary, Tariq Aziz, who accused the U.S. of ignoring Iraq's good behavior and maliciously refusing to lift an economic embargo against Baghdad. Since less than a fortnight earlier Baghdad had menaced Kuwait with more than 80,000 troops, Aziz's remark was disingenuous, if not absurd. The task of pointing this out fell to Madeleine Albright...
...Shue finally agreed to consent and said, "Enough!" But the abrupt change reads more like an easy way out of a fine mess. As the grand finale approaches, all of the characters are running around the room, slopping food on each other, and singing. Their ruckus is ingratiating in small spurts but after a while it becomes annoying theater. Like dupes, they try to mimic the Nerd in the hopes that he'll be repulsed and leave. Ultimately, their antics look more silly and pathetic...
...there. "The Hall of Fame," he writes, "has never really thought through the issue of how to identify the most worthy Hall of Famers." His evidence: comparison of players' records and eyewitness testimony. Exhibit A: Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto, whose exclusion from the Hall stoked a 30-year ruckus...