Word: assassinates
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...Manchurian Candidate, template for the modern paranoid conspiracy tragicomedy. Seven Days in May and Seconds painted bleak portraits of an America at war with its best instincts. He sagged personally and professionally after the death of Robert Kennedy, whom he drove to the candidate's rendezvous with an assassin. The director rebounded in the '90s with such HBO films as Andersonville, George Wallace and The Burning Season; he won four Emmys...
...amnesia afflicting Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is, luckily for him, only partial. He can't quite remember what line of work he's in (CIA assassin) or how he came to be floating, more dead than alive, in the Mediterranean Sea one dark and stormy night...
...different. This guy with a candy-apple red Mohawk darts into view, launching his lanky frame at the ball like a madman. In the center of the defense is a buzzing human gnat wearing the black-leather face mask of a professional wrestler. The team captain is a silky assassin who snakes passes with the style and misdirection of 007. His wingman is a shaved-headed, ball-dribbling maestro. Up front: two bleach blond surfer dudes, one of them with the most pinchable cheeks since the Gerber baby...
...break: it was just a warm-up. In the matches that mattered, Crespo delivered the goods, scoring nine times during Argentina's qualifying march. Overall, he has a strike rate of one goal every other game?better even than English idol Michael Owen. Where Batistuta is a smooth assassin, Crespo is a wily pickpocket, deceiving defenders and slipping unnoticed into goal-scoring positions. At 26, he is at the peak of his powers, and although he hasn't scored in recent friendlies, he has looked sharp...
DIED. RICHARD MUDD, 101, who spent his life trying to clear the name of his grandfather Samuel Mudd, convicted in 1865 of abetting Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, in part by setting Booth's broken leg after the assassination; in Saginaw, Mich. States passed resolutions proclaiming the elder Mudd's innocence, and Presidents Carter and Reagan wrote letters saying they believed it. Still, they said, they could not officially overturn the decision of the military court...