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...what will happen after the police go back to their day jobs. On TV, the usual cast of security experts roundly lamented insufficient funds for mass-transit security. Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware vowed to introduce a bill that would add $1.1 billion in new money and "make everybody stand up and be counted on it, goddammit." But without pausing for breath, everyone agreed there is really no way to prevent an attack from happening here. "Surface transportation is a killing ground," says Brian Michael Jenkins, a terrorism expert with the Rand Corp...
...much as possible with our partners." Sometimes, he adds, the work pays off and attacks are averted; he mentions the bust of a Paris-based cell a couple of years ago. "But when we see what it was these people had in store for us, it makes your hair stand on end. Fortunately, we got that group. It's virtually assured that one day, we will miss another like it." --Reported by Helen Gibson/London, Bruce Crumley/Paris, Brian Bennett, Timothy J. Burger, Douglas Waller and Adam Zagorin/Washington, Jeff Israely/ Rome, Scott MacLeod/Cairo, Nathan Thornburgh/New York and William Boston/Berlin
...lost with school, and yes, lost with writing for this very newspaper—I tend to forget that so many of my roots are found right here. I was born and raised in a condominium in New York, so things like geography and language and culture obviously stand in the way of any true reunion between the two locales...
...think I should win, but I just think that being a part of this group is an incredible distinction in and of itself, so I’m perfectly content to be a nominee,” she says. “Everyone has different abilities that made them stand out in such a way to be recognized by ESPN, and so to say that mine are more worthy of note than someone else’s is unfair. I’ll leave that up to the voters...
Large, global companies are complex organisms, of course, with sometimes contradictory positions, and you could say Ford execs are just protecting investors, whose interests they are legally required to represent. No CEO wants to stand up at a shareholders' meeting and announce that going green hurt profits. "Guys in my job can't have hobbies," Immelt says, explaining that he's not greening GE to earn plaudits from environmentalists, eco-minded consumers or even young GE employees, who liked the idea according to internal focus groups. "You can't do things because you had a vision while you were...