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...Although an Olympic gold was always a goal (along with place-kicking for the Green Bay Packers), FitzRandolph says, "I didn't know if maybe time was running out." For the last three years he has spent time in Canada, training at the Calgary Oval, and last fall completely left his teammates, "his support system", to train exclusively in Calgary. It was a move, he said, that could have worked either...
...quixotic ransom note accused Pearl of working for the CIA--a charge vehemently denied by the Journal and the CIA--and demanded that the U.S. release the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef and the Pakistanis it is holding at its base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of terrorist links. The note also insisted that the U.S. deliver the F-16 fighter aircraft it had sold Pakistan before imposing sanctions on the country in 1990 because of its nuclear-weapons program. Kidnapperguy, it seems, hadn't done his homework: the conflict had been resolved...
...Frodo Lives" or "Go Go Gandalf," while Ringworms, the trilogy's hardcore fans, learned the fictional languages Tolkien invented for his imaginary characters. Tolkien finally had to get an unlisted number after he'd been awakened in the middle of the night one too many times by brain-fried Bay Area hippies who just had to sort out the tangled lineage of Elvish Kings. You don't find nerds that dedicated today. Who needs to hallucinate visions of Frodo and his trippy friends when Peter Jackson's vision does it so well on screen? Of course, Jackson spent $300 million...
AFGHANISTAN Movement on the Diplomatic Front The newest group of detainees arriving at Guantánamo Bay knew one thing: they would not be treated as prisoners of war. But U.S. officials acknowledged that the decision to apply the Geneva Conventions to Taliban fighters, but not al-Qaeda members, would not materially affect their circumstances. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the step was rather intended as a "precedent for the future," implying it might help protect captured U.S. soldiers. In Afghanistan, the U.S. renewed missile strikes on suspected al-Qaeda targets while heavy snow left thousands of villages without access...
...Crimson, who was riding high after the previous night’s exciting finish in New York. Cornell came out with more intensity and energy, jumping out to a quick 14-4 lead in a sloppy offensive game. By halftime, the Big Red had kept Harvard at bay, leading...