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...seemed somber and distracted in private meetings. In public he was unusually careful in his words. ''I just don't want to do anything to prolong this,'' he said. The Spectator article, long on damaging detail but short on corroboration, was based largely on interviews with two Arkansas state troopers, Larry Patterson and Roger Perry, assigned to Clinton's security detail in the 1980s. They picture the Clintons as a pinstripe Jiggs and Maggie -- him often tiptoeing home past midnight, her sometimes greeting him on his return with a mouthful of four-letter words and a temper that Patterson says...
...property, it is currently being investigated by the Massachusetts State Police. “It’s fair to say that [the incident] is still under investigation and it’s something that we’ll continue to work on,” said Massachusetts State Trooper Thomas Ryan. In an e-mail to Mather residents on Friday, Mather House Masters Leigh Hafrey and Sandra Naddaff and Allston Burr Senior Tutor Bradley Zakarin urged students to “use good judgment and take necessary precautions” when walking on the streets around Mather House...
...images, is being developed by Massachusetts-based Viisage. It focuses on unique marks on the human face--cheekbones, tip of the nose--and can cross-reference pictures with databases, much to the interest of law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. In Florida, the Pinellas County sheriff's office has outfitted troopers' cars with a system that uses Viisage technology. If a trooper sees someone acting suspiciously, the officer can take a digital image of the person, upload it to a database of criminals, and get back any hits. How hard is it for bad guys to game the system with...
...President never attended the funerals of the fallen. One general, who had presided over 162 memorial services in Iraq, told me how it worked: "There's no coffin, just the inverted rifle, boots and helmet of the fallen. We call the roll, up to the name of the missing trooper. We call his name: Specialist...
...regal serenity is sometimes tested. For instance, Curragh has been known to bog a four-wheel-drive vehicle or get a drenching in the lagoon after tipping over the dugout canoe into which she is trying to climb. When that happens, she'll swear like a trooper. Then she'll break into a hearty, long laugh. Here's an energetic cop, only seven years in the job, who craves action and responsibility but doesn't take herself too seriously. To the smiling, freckled Curragh, this outpost, and the surrounding islands, is an amazing place - "Magical Munda," she calls...