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...margin was expanded to 6-4 in the fifth, when Fritsch got belligerent, dropping a bomb over the outfield fence for her fourth home run of the year...
...Manila, Philippine police bust a cadre of al-Qaeda members plotting to blow up 12 airplanes, a scheme they called Operation Bojinka (Serbo-Croatian for explosion). On a test run, the co-conspirators had planted a small bomb on a Philippine Airlines flight that killed one passenger. Officials finger Ramzi Yousef--the wanted leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing--and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the plot's masterminds. An accomplice of Yousef's, Abdul Hakim Murad, who learned to fly at a U.S. flight school, tells interrogators he and Yousef discussed a plan to fly a small plane...
...August 1945, Harry Truman made the weightiest presidential decision of the 20th century. He later said he never lost a night's sleep over dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima. For that, some critics to this day condemn him for lack of reflectiveness--and worse. I'd call it decisiveness. And in wartime, decisiveness counts for more...
...obsession with legacy that was the true spur for his trip to Islamabad. Whatever the motive, after three wars with Pakistan in 57 years, the greatest gift any Indian leader can bequeath his people is peace. That the man who exploded the subcontinent's first atom bomb may also lead his nation out of war has both an inconsistency and a karmic symmetry that is pure Vajpayee and pure India. --By Alex Perry
...nervous system, that lingers no longer than a shiver. The films of Japanese director Hideo Nakata--The Ring (1998), Ring 2 (1999), Chaos (1999) and Dark Water (2002)--take a subtler route to spooking audiences. In his thrillers, Nakata concentrates less on the explosion of the time bomb than on the ticking inside it: abstract images on a videotape, an aquarium tank full of dead fish, a water stain spreading on a ceiling. His heroine-victims, often preadolescent girls, are guilty only of the original sin of being human; they may finally neither destroy nor exorcise the demons haunting them...