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...most notorious recent use of an assault weapon occurred late last month in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where two bank robbers tumbled out of their getaway car and shot to death a veteran police captain through the windshield of his vehicle with M1-A1 assault rifles. "He didn't have a chance," said a colleague, Captain Terry Martorano. "They executed...
Irony -- for which he has perfect pitch -- is his weapon of choice: "Alger Hiss always made his debut escorted by the Gods: He came to Washington with a reference from Felix Frankfurter and he went to Lewisburg ((prison)) with a reference to Frank Costello." In the sentence that opens an essay about one of his favorite subjects, the tragedy (or comedy) of the self-deluded rebel, Kempton dryly sums up another progressive hero: "Paul Robeson's was a career whose rise and fall were both tethered to his identity as a man of conspicuous color." Kempton's asperity...
Dartmouth's prime weapon, 62-point scorer Lauren Holleran, was taken out of the game by Harvard senior Kelly Morrison. Holleran could only muster one goal and one shot...
...main weapon against cash and checks is plastic -- credit cards, bank debit cards and so-called smart cards. Together they represent 9% of total consumer payment transactions and are expected to reach 15% by 2001. Besides taxicabs and newsstands, credit cards are employed in parking garages and movie theaters and could soon be the way that Americans pay their taxes, if industry lobbyists prevail. But since card issuers charge an average of 16.5% while the irs extracts only 7% for late payments, consumer groups warn that taxpayers should be wary. So far, stiff interest rates have done little to curb...
...concerned is the agency that earlier this year it opened a high-tech- crime office with a dozen agents in San Jose, California, to clamp down on chip thefts. Among other things, the agents have found a rising threat of heist-related violence. "We're seeing more weapons being used," says special agent Rick Smith. In one stickup a robber put his gun to a chip retailer's head and pulled the trigger, but the weapon failed to fire. "No one's been killed yet," Smith says, "but it's going to happen...