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...kind of watershed in the stressful post-Sept. 11 world of airline security when the public has to decide who's telling the truth, the pilot or the Secret Service agent. That's what happened in the case of a member of President Bush's security detail who was thrown off an American Airlines plane on Christmas Day because of alleged problems with paperwork permitting him to carry a handgun. The pilot says the agent, identified in news reports as Walied Schater, got belligerent. Schater, through lawyers, says he was discriminated against because he's of Arab descent. Whoever...
...When he’s at home, why would he wear anything more? But it was only when the cameras rolled, and then an immediate robe was thrown my way. But I didn’t mind. It was a little chilly...
...only admire the energy thrown into the fight and the motivations of our activist friends. But significant pitfalls lurk in their constant pursuit of the “living wage” mirage...
...more of a national ID system, a linking of Departments of Motor Vehicles - and the records they keep on you - across state lines, with some extra on-card security measures thrown in. For terrorists on the run (and other criminals, too, but nobody worries about them any more) the plan means that a state trooper in California would be able to pull the records of a driver from Georgia - and be certain that those records were the driver's, and not an innocent lookalike he stole the card from...
...videotaping the match, and I would have thrown away the tape if we had lost,” Patterson said. “Both Pete’s and my parents were there, and a lot of people were in the audience...