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...York police and federal officers moved into action. They surrounded a rundown building at 248 Fourth Ave., just outside the middle-class Park Slope neighborhood, quietly evacuated 90 nearby residents and rerouted subway trains that carry 300,000 passengers every rush hour. Just before dawn, heavily armed cops swarmed into a first-floor apartment. One of the men inside reached into a bag, while another lunged for one of the officers' guns. Both men were shot repeatedly. The bag turned out to contain a powerful pipe bomb, one of several in the apartment. The suspect had succeeded in flicking...
BROOKLYN: In a shoot-out at an apartment in Brooklyn, police found five pipe bombs that may have been intended for a terrorist attack on New York's commuter rail system. The early-morning raid forced the evacuation of neighbors and closed down several rush-hour subway lines. Officers shot and wounded two of the three Middle Eastern men in the apartment during the assault. Mayor Rudolph Guiliani said one was shot when he appeared to be trying to detonate one of the explosive devices. Two of the men, identified as Jhazi Abu Mezer, 23, and Lafi Khalil, 22, carried...
...genesis of a perfect essay lies in a particular, rational observation of the workaday world. For example, on my daily outing to work I notice that all the subway riders, while somewhat sleepy, are sprightly in their attitude toward the day. When I return from work on the same train line, I see similar faces, also somewhat sleepy, but distinctly dispirited in their appearance. My conclusion is that the work these riders, whom we may surmise are representative of workers the country over, perform drains rather than fulfills them...
Inning nine, Boston: The Sox take it 6-4, and people begin to flee out of the stadium, hoping to beat the crowds to the subway and parking garages. Lines half a block long for the subway quickly result...
Postgame, Boston: Lines for the subway are insane, but one of our friends gets us home in a little over an hour after some amazing crowd-dodging moves...