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...first place, he’s also clever enough to realize that his best chance of survival is to avoid handing the United States clear proof of his guilt. After all, a guy who kills his family and barricades himself in his house is insane, but when the SWAT team shows up he’ll stay away from the windows all the same...
...match with either man's dna. Meanwhile, more evidence is emerging of the lengths to which desperate authorities went in an effort to catch the snipers. At the height of the Beltway crisis, fbi sources tell Time, the bureau's elite hostage-rescue team secretly paired with local swat teams and scattered around the region in unmarked cars. Clad in body armor and equipped with night-vision gear and secure radios, the groups were prepared to race to the scene of a shooting and arrest the killers. They never got their chance. But the increased use of these federal-local...
...that pairing lies a point. Ruth, the Sultan of Swat, owned baseball's record books and mythology for 50 years after his career ended. The legend was of a hardscrabble son of a saloonkeeper with a big heart who loved kids and was worshipped by his fans. Ruth was all of that, but he also set prodigious marks in beer guzzling and womanizing...
When it comes to cracking down on corporate crime, retribution seems to be the order of the day in Washington. Not long after Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill spoke of hanging wayward CEOs from the highest tree, President Bush announced the formation of a "financial-crimes SWAT team." Unfortunately, the proposals most likely to pass into law have more bark than bite. Here's a look at some solutions that are more than just tough talk...
...into a microphone to deal with each security infraction--such as a pilot's setting off an alarm at a secure door when his ID badge is misread. For major incidents--big weather problems as well as security breaches--the action shifts to the room next door, where a SWAT team of airport personnel are summoned around a circular conference table whose centerpiece pops up at the push of a button to give each participant a phone and computer. Denver's layout makes dealing with a security breach easier than at many airports: the train system is instantly shut down...