WASHINGTON – The era of terror has spawned a new "status symbol" in the nation's capital: bodyguards. If you don't have them, you're not considered important, say career federal employees who find the post-Sept. 11 trend both amusing and disturbing. Even the low-profile director of the relatively small, 3,600-employee Office of Personnel Management now has a protective detail. Interior Secretary Gale Norton, moreover, is protected by a phalanx of guards armed with MP-5 submachine guns, a weapon used by the president's Secret Service detail. "It's crazy," said a veteran U.S. official now involved in homeland security. In the past, protective...