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Hullabaloo in Times Square
Garrison Keillor
I often walk through
I'm fond of
Saturday night, at the time the Nissan was discovered and cops started to evacuate the area, I was at a show on
Bomb experts did not agree on the deadliness of the device. One retired
Both bomb guys agreed on the fact that the bomb had not detonated.
By early Tuesday morning, the cops had put the collar on a Pakistani gentleman at JFK, and now, as I write, hundreds of detectives and agents of the
The Times reports that
We have more than enough security people in this country now. Highly trained TSA operatives with headsets for instant communication stand by the scanners in airports in
Next Saturday I will be back in
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