CNN 2011-06-28

An old-school crime story and a new approach to nabbing a fugitive¹. James "Whitey" Bulger is the stuff of legend， loan sharking, drug rackets, and more than a dozen alleged² murders. A reputed Boston kingpin who inspired fear and Hollywood scriptwriters. His larger-than-life persona borrowed by Jack³ Nicholson in the movie "The Departed."

Makes me curious to see you in this neighborhood.

Well, today, Boston's most notorious gangster⁴ and his longtime girlfriend are in jail after 16 years on the run.

Kara Finnstrom in Los Angeles where they'll make their first court appearance today.

And let's take a look at this PSA right now, Kara.It was a very unusual strategy that actually led to nabbing him, right?

Right. Certainly it was. You know gangster ，we're told that a tipster actually saw this PSA that was airing. FBI agents say he saw it, and then he called in, and he led them to the pair last night.

Interestingly enough, James "Whitey" Bulger had eluded⁵ authorities for more than a decade and a half. They tried to find him but he traveled.He'd use disguises and he'd gone all around the world eluding⁶ them so finally they went after his girlfriend and they aired these PSAs which had specific information about her. And that's what ultimately led them to him.

And tell us about that information. Actually, some of it's quite comical.

Yes, they included some very specific information about her. They said that she'd numerous plastic surgeries, that she liked to go to the beauty salon,that she's been a dental hygienist. And so she usually had her teeth cleaned about once a month.

And then you see a picture here of her with some dogs. They also say she loved dogs and that she often would take long walks on the beaches with Bulger.So they created kind of a painting of who she was hoping that would lead them to her and it did.

Nothing like bright white teeth leading you to a notorious gangster.

Now the FBI has actually been criticized for overlooking a lot of his heinous⁷ crimes for information，in response for getting information from him on other gangsters⁸, right?

Yes. He's legendary⁹ in the Boston area and there had been widespread reports that the FBI had used him as an informant and perhaps they had cozied up to him too much, allowing him to escape, that he'd gotten word of，that he was about to be arrested.

The FBI on its own Web site does say that he had infiltrated¹⁰ their agency.So there were lots of concerns about this over the years.I am sure they are very glad at this point to have him behind bars and to try and close this chapter.

You don't actually agree with these new policies. You think kids should be patted down, Mary. Why?

Well, whenever you carve out wholesale¹¹ exceptions to the security rules, terrorists, hijackers, et cetera people who want to see us harm ，will exploit the wholesale carve-outs of the security rule. And so, what would be a better policy is to train the screeners to use better discretion¹² to figure out what is the threat and what isn't and to hone in more particularly instead of carving¹³ out these wholesale exceptions.

And as a former prosecutor¹⁴, I can tell you, I had worked on cases or know of cases where children as young as 6 or 7 in the United States were used unwittingly to carry out plots of crimes. So, we are creating an exception that will be exploited by terrorists.

All right. Interesting. You hit the age that I wanted to bring an example of exactly. As the TSA is changing its policy on children, it came after this video was released of a 6-year-old girl getting a pat-down.

You know, what do you tell a parent, though, who is very uncomfortable with this? How do you justify¹⁵ it to them?

Well, I'm a parent and I traveled the world with my kids because of my job as an aviation lawyer.My kids as young as infants had to go with me on many work assignments. And what you do is you train your children. You're a parent. Children take clues from you.

My parents as young as 3 were taught how to go through pat-downs and back then, the airlines were doing it, and they were far worse than the TSA and we were often targeted because of my work.

And so, you train your children. This is what we do.

And, just remember, you know, every inconvenience is not a constitutional infringement¹⁶.And so, some things you have to do, and what I told my children is we have to do this because sometimes bad people take things on planes, which turned out to be sadly true on September 11th.

And I think the parents owe a responsibility to the children so they can travel the world without feeling insecure or hassled.

Checking stories "Cross Country." A Phoenix¹⁷ jury says self-help guru James Ray is guilty of negligent¹⁸ homicide. Three people died of dehydration¹⁹ and heat stroke in what he called a sweat lodge²⁰ ceremony in the Arizona desert in 2009.

For 17 hours he held off police in Ogden, Utah, all the while he updated his status on Facebook.The hostage is OK but gunman Jason Valdez is in critical condition after shooting himself.

Space history coming to an end next month and this is the shuttle crew that will take us on the final launch. NASA is retiring the fleet after 30 years and 135 missions. Chris Ferguson will command Atlantis July 8th.

1 fugitive   

adj.逃亡的，易逝的；n.逃犯，逃亡者

参考例句：

• The police were able to deduce where the fugitive was hiding.警方成功地推断出那逃亡者躲藏的地方。
• The fugitive is believed to be headed for the border.逃犯被认为在向国境线逃窜。

2 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

3 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

4 gangster   

n.匪徒，歹徒，暴徒

参考例句：

• The gangster's friends bought off the police witness.那匪徒的朋友买通了警察方面的证人。
• He is obviously a gangster,but he pretends to be a saint.分明是强盗，却要装圣贤。

5 eluded   

v.（尤指机敏地）避开( elude的过去式和过去分词 )；逃避；躲避；使达不到

参考例句：

• The sly fox nimbly eluded the dogs. 那只狡猾的狐狸灵活地躲避开那群狗。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The criminal eluded the police. 那个罪犯甩掉了警察的追捕。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

6 eluding   

v.（尤指机敏地）避开( elude的现在分词 )；逃避；躲避；使达不到

参考例句：

• He saw no way of eluding Featherstone's stupid demand. 费瑟斯通的愚蠢要求使他走投无路。 来自辞典例句
• The fox succeeded in eluding the hunters. 这狐狸成功地避过了猎手。 来自辞典例句

7 heinous   

adj.可憎的，十恶不赦的

参考例句：

• They admitted to the most heinous crimes.他们承认了极其恶劣的罪行。
• I do not want to meet that heinous person.我不想见那个十恶不赦的人。

8 gangsters   

匪徒，歹徒( gangster的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The gangsters offered him a sum equivalent to a whole year's earnings. 歹徒提出要给他一笔相当于他一年收入的钱。
• One of the gangsters was caught by the police. 歹徒之一被警察逮捕。

9 legendary   

adj.传奇（中）的，闻名遐迩的；n.传奇（文学）

参考例句：

• Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
• Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。

10 infiltrated   

adj.[医]浸润的v.（使）渗透，（指思想）渗入人的心中( infiltrate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The headquarters had been infiltrated by enemy spies. 总部混入了敌方特务。
• Many Chinese idioms have infiltrated into the Japanese language. 许多中国成语浸透到日语中。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

11 wholesale   

n.批发；adv.以批发方式；vt.批发，成批出售

参考例句：

• The retail dealer buys at wholesale and sells at retail.零售商批发购进货物，以零售价卖出。
• Such shoes usually wholesale for much less.这种鞋批发出售通常要便宜得多。

12 discretion   

n.谨慎；随意处理

参考例句：

• You must show discretion in choosing your friend.你择友时必须慎重。
• Please use your best discretion to handle the matter.请慎重处理此事。

13 carving   

n.雕刻品，雕花

参考例句：

• All the furniture in the room had much carving.房间里所有的家具上都有许多雕刻。
• He acquired the craft of wood carving in his native town.他在老家学会了木雕手艺。

14 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

15 justify   

vt.证明…正当(或有理)，为…辩护

参考例句：

• He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.他想用站不住脚的借口为自己的缺席辩解。
• Can you justify your rude behavior to me?你能向我证明你的粗野行为是有道理的吗？

16 infringement   

n.违反；侵权

参考例句：

• Infringement of this regulation would automatically rule you out of the championship.违背这一规则会被自动取消参加锦标赛的资格。
• The committee ruled that the US ban constituted an infringement of free trade.委员会裁定美国的禁令对自由贸易构成了侵犯

17 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。

18 negligent   

adj.疏忽的；玩忽的；粗心大意的

参考例句：

• The committee heard that he had been negligent in his duty.委员会听说他玩忽职守。
• If the government is proved negligent,compensation will be payable.如果证明是政府的疏忽，就应支付赔偿。

19 dehydration   

n.脱水，干燥

参考例句：

• He died from severe dehydration.他死于严重脱水。
• The eyes are often retracted from dehydration.眼睛常因脱水而凹陷。

20 lodge   

v.临时住宿，寄宿，寄存，容纳；n.传达室，小旅馆

参考例句：

• Is there anywhere that I can lodge in the village tonight?村里有我今晚过夜的地方吗？
• I shall lodge at the inn for two nights.我要在这家小店住两个晚上。