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...That depends on the border, counters Tom Craig, a former Scotland Yard officer who now specializes in identity theft. "If an expert knows what the new passports should look like and they have the technology, then they will find the mistakes," said Craig. "But how do you know if it's good or bad if you don't know those details...
...What a fight it could be. The SNP have already wrested control of Scotland's own parliament away from Labour with a manifesto that calls for the country's eventual secession from the United Kingdom. If Scottish Nationalists were to achieve a swing of the magnitude of Glasgow East at the next general election, Labour would lose all but one of its 40 Scottish seats in Westminster. Brown himself, the MP for Kircaldy and Cowdenbeath near Edinburgh, would be among the casualties...
...number of crashes and even smaller number of attacks on planes just did not justify vast airline investments in safety and security. After all, as the FAA's associate administrator for civil-aviation security, Cathal Flynn, would tell me, the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, cost $1 billion. Trying to prevent another Pan Am 103 would cost $5 billion over 10 years. Couldn't I understand? The numbers just didn...
...wimpiness, threatening to break the All-time Whining record held by the Justin Long character in Live Free and Die Hard. Moviegoers may start to wonder if McAvoy has imported to Wanted the softness of his roles in the more elevated Brit films Atonement, The Last King of Scotland and Becoming Jane. But he eventually gets the hang of movie heroism. Like Tobey Maguire, plucked from indie films to play Spider-Man, McAvoy is the sensitive nerd who, when shirtless, brandishes the bulked-up chest a few months with a stern trainer can produce. That's how you get yanked...
Michelle, Ma Belle The "Truths" Michelle Obama speaks are evolutionary and applicable to deep-rooted Americans [June 9]. My American family goes back to Captain John Steele in the Revolutionary War. Our immigrant ancestors have come from Ireland, Germany, England, Scotland, Eastern Europe, Russia, Mexico and the Philippines. I happen to be a 76-year-old white male, and "for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country." When Michelle speaks, we hear her wakening the American Dream. John S. Hellman, NEW YORK CITY...