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...When the guards at Pusey weren’t looking, you could sneak through the tunnel between Pusey and Widener,” said Choi, who wrote a college application essay about sneaking into Widener. (She used a different essay for Harvard...
Whichever the case, this Ford faces a real challenge at the wheel. "Our problems didn't just sneak up on us," he admitted last week. "We've been in trouble since last year when the Firestone crisis broke." All of which means that although Ford has been exonerated by federal regulators in the death of 271 people in Explorers whose Firestone tires failed, the company is beset by a garageful of problems. Its dividend has been halved. Its vehicles have been dogged by quality issues, such as the cooling-fan glitch that has once again postponed delivery of the long...
However, as demonstrated by the sudden black support for racial profiling, travelers’ peace of mind demands more aggressive action. To prevent the transfer of boarding passes, passengers that have already checked-in should be separated from those that have not. To make it more difficult to sneak weapons onto planes, every carry-on should be opened for inspection—including search with a bomb-sniffing wand. And, as a final safeguard against unauthorized passengers on-board, identification presented at check-in should be scanned into a computer database so that, upon boarding, each passenger can be photographed...
...surprised and humiliated by the sneak attack on Sept. 11, is now throwing everything it has at that network. The agency?s Counter-Terrorism Center, which coordinates the worldwide war out of the ground floor of the Langley headquarters, has ballooned to 800 analysts, technicians and covert operatives. Nearby conference rooms and snack bars have been commandeered for makeshift workstations. Empty pizza boxes, the residue of 24-hour-a-day activity, litter hallways. A financial team is feeding bank transfer intelligence to Operation Green Quest, a Treasury Department program to block al Qaeda?s cash flow. Agency scientists are also...
...weeks ago, Gen. Charles Holland, head of the U.S. Special Operations Command, met with a dozen new U.S. ambassadors at Ft. Bragg, N.C. When you get to your posts, "don?t be surprised if you see us coming," Holland warned. The command has secret contingency plans to sneak special operations forces into any trouble spot in the world, complete with infiltration routes, drop zones, intelligence contacts and assault points. About 20 Army Green Berets, Navy SEALs and military counter-terror operatives have already been dispatched to the Philippines to advise its army in guerrilla warfare against the Abu Sayyef group...