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After a scoreless first period, Harvard finally broke through at 5:28 of the second...
...December 1991, "B" abruptly broke off with Moscow until late 1999, when he just as abruptly resumed as before. In hindsight, FBI officials believe the reason is obvious. In 1992, the FBI and CIA assembled a "backroom" team to figure out why a series of operations had been blown. They suspected a high-level mole. Eventually their stealthy investigations led them to CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames in 1994. Though the backroom hunt was a closely held secret, the ever curious Hanssen might have figured it out from stray details. Even after Ames' arrest, the mole ferreting went on, leading...
...that it wasn't breathtaking to watch a shiny new ex-presidency disappear under a freak mud slide. The debris hurtled by so fast that the New York Times editorial page seemed to run out of synonyms for disgust, revulsion and abuse. Jimmy Carter, the perfect ex-President, broke the cardinal rule of the brotherhood and called Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich "disgraceful." Even Terry McAuliffe, the former President's friend, said that decision had been wrong. Perhaps worst of all, there seemed to be no end to the bodies that might float down the swollen river. Congressional investigators...
...minor pardons, a "fine lawyer and a fine man." She claimed neither when referring to Hughie. Only once did she say she loved him, while repeating, like a well-rehearsed talking point, how "disappointed and disturbed" she was. She boasted about not having spoken to Hughie since the story broke...
...roughshod and regional, but France negotiated the bumpy road efficiently, and then in the late 1950s, Detroit moved south and everything changed. Much of America thinks stock-car racing broke through about five years ago, when the Kid--Jeff Gordon, he of the Tom Cruise looks and the middle-class Indiana upbringing--started winning everything in sight and turning up on the Today show to hobnob with Katie and Matt. But consider this: by 1965, NASCAR was already the second most popular sport, by attendance, in the country. And it hadn't started its Northern offensive...