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...bureau is also returning to a strategy, long out of fashion at the FBI, of detaining suspects for minor infractions as a preventive measure. "If we can find them spitting on the sidewalk, we're grabbing them," says a bureau official, "and trying to hold on to them until we can figure things out...We're playing protective defense. We can't let it happen again." Attorney General Robert Kennedy used the "spitting on the sidewalk" strategy--prosecuting small-time offenses to bag big-time suspects--against the Mob. But the strategy began to disappear in the 1970s, when criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foiling The Plots: Search And Disrupt | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...night began around 12:45am in front of John Winthrop House. The mechanical sounds of the shuttle clambering down Mount Holyoke Street encouraged loitering students off of the street and onto a sidewalk filled with impatient travelers. When the brakes grinded to a halt, the doors of the shuttle opened and an inebriated FM comper emerged with puckered lips ready to attack. The lips were then pressed against an innocent researcher who quickly boarded the shuttle...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

...bureau is also returning to a strategy, long out of fashion at the FBI, of detaining suspects for minor infractions as a preventive measure. "If we can find them spitting on the sidewalk, we're grabbing them," says a bureau official, "and trying to hold on to them until we can figure things out ... We're playing protective defense. We can't let it happen again." Attorney General Robert Kennedy used the "spitting on the sidewalk" strategy - prosecuting small-time offenses to bag big-time suspects - against the Mob. But the strategy began to disappear in the 1970s, when criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foiling the Plots | 10/13/2001 | See Source »

...hang signs on their porches that read, THIS HOME PROTECTED BY SHOTGUNS THREE NIGHTS A WEEK. WANT TO GUESS WHICH NIGHTS? Nestled at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, Marietta is a pretty town that never quite made it to beautiful. Its long history, exhaustively documented on sidewalk plaques, features Indian burial grounds and gilded steamboats. It has one train museum and two drive-through beer stores, but only 14,500 people and not a single Starbucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Terror Changed One Town's Imagination | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

That’s right. Nothing, especially an old, foul smelling refrigerator found on the sidewalk outside Wigg, stinks too much for the guys in H-12. So naturally, when they found this smelly old remnant of a fridge outside on the pavement they embraced it, they carried it inside, they scrubbed it, they washed it, and most importantly, they loved...

Author: By M.l. Siegel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nothing stinks too much for Wigg H-12 | 9/27/2001 | See Source »

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