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...Manhattan district attorney's office. A few attempts to wire undercover agents had failed, in part because the target--the notorious Gambino family--was wary of such tricks. So Spitzer came up with a high-risk plan to set up his own sweatshop. He brought in a state trooper to run it undercover, then hired 30 laborers who had no idea it was a front. The shop set up on Chrystie Street in the city's garment district, turning out shirts, pants and sweaters. But the sting took longer than anyone had anticipated. "Every two weeks Eliot would come...
...Fisher is] just such a phenomenal athlete. And when she gets forward like that, it’s a threat that other teams have a difficult time dealing with. She had a tough day physically, but she just fought through—she’s such a trooper...
...staccato of killing, he returned to gas stations and targeted less populated areas, nearer major highways: he killed his ninth victim Wednesday evening while the man was pumping gas at a Sunoco station in Prince William County, Va. And he killed his 10th the next morning, with a state trooper parked just across the way, this time in Fredericksburg, Va., about 50 miles southwest of Washington. Police blocked off I95, stopping all northbound white vans in response to a witness report. Geraldo Rivera, stuck in traffic, began broadcasting live on Fox News from his cell phone. But the shooter slipped...
...trooper, nearing 69, knew his war. In the Map Room in May 1943, Churchill asked Elsey about news from the submarine battle going on under the Atlantic. Elsey had just finished updating the map. "I just removed three black pins," the symbol for German subs, he told Churchill, who astonished the young American by jumping up and down and shouting, "We've got him! We've got him! We've got him!" The sinkings came about because the Allies had cracked the German secret code. Some experts would later agree the turning point in the war came...
...Customs Service's Interagency Border Inspection System (IBIS), which is run at border crossing points. A greater number of names, including aliases, partial names and sound-alike names are being put into the Department of State's TIPOFF system, used to check foreigners seeking visas. Unlike a trooper making a traffic stop, Justice officials say, a consular officer has considerable time to investigate whether the applicant is, in fact, the same person who's referred to on the terrorist suspect list...