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...Virgil's head and forced him into a white van crudely painted and taped to look like a Mountain Bell telephone service truck. Four gunmen warned Virgil to cooperate or they would shoot his wife. Grainger came, then David Harris, branch operations supervisor. The gunmen needed both to unlock the vault. Less than 20 minutes later the thieves had driven away with $3.3 million in cash, which the FBI believes is the biggest bank heist in U.S. history...
...rather than stepping back, developing an instrument of action and then moving on with the organizational basis of the social problem. We've all done this--I did this in the auto area and with the utilities. Then a few years ago I realized that the real way to unlock this enormous concensus against certain patterns of injustice in this country that exist among the American people is to provide the instrument of organization in sector after sector." When this begins to happen. Nader says, "people begin to realize that they should control what they already own, like millions...
...helps an interloper get into forbidden recesses of a computer. The mischiefmaker slyly slips some extra commands into a computer program (the instructions by which the machine performs a given task). Then when another programmer with higher clearance runs the program, he will unwittingly trigger the covert instructions. These unlock the guarded areas, just as the Greek soldiers hidden in the horse unlocked Troy's gates. The culprit might then transfer money to his own account, steal private information or sabotage the system itself. Other colorfully named ploys: superzapping (penetrating a computer by activating its own emergency master program...
...ammunition was exhausted, persisted in fighting to the death with sticks and knives. Said an Iraqi major who conducted some of the mop-up operations: "They were crazy. Many of them wore a gold key around their necks. They said they were told by Khomeini that the key would unlock the door to heaven in the next life...
...Dorms ready for occupancy, says the brochure; dorms open, says the connoisseur. Arrive ready for occupancy, invasion and incursion at 6:30 a.m. Grab the keys to the entryway and room. Run (repeat: run) upstairs, quickly unlock the door, and throw your belongings on the bed of the suite's only single. Be sure to be nonchalant, however, when your roommate ambles in ten minutes later. You'll be spending a lot of time with that person this year. Tell your first fib, something like, "Well, I got in at three in the morning and didn't have a place...