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...college career, there were doubts he could handle pro players. United won back-to-back MLS Cup titles. When he was named coach of the U.S. team in October of '98, there was clamoring that the team needed a leader with a glittering international r?sum?, not some local from Brooklyn...
...Hall, the road to teaching at a school in Brooklyn next year began in the second grade. Her dreams were repeatedly discouraged by people who told her it would be a waste for her to go into teaching, but she says she was never swayed...
...known to say, “Harm no one,” “work hard,” “enjoy New York” and “take time for nature...whether it be camping in the Adirondacks...strolling Shore Road in Brooklyn...gardening in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens,” according to a tribute posted on the Marsh & McLennan website...
...they contained hotter adjectives than Americans were used to. Before, new attacks were likely; now they were "inevitable." All the while, the FBI dispensed a steady stream of all-terrain warnings--about potential attacks on land, in the air and underwater. Specifically, New Yorkers were told that the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and their apartment buildings could be targeted; the country's 103 nuclear power plants were placed on heightened alert; and new, cryptic FBI dispatches warned of the remote possibility of small-aircraft kamikazes and scuba-diver offensives--perhaps, a source tells TIME, to place a limpet...
...round-the-clock operation at the New York field office of the FBI--got a call from FBI headquarters. Abu Zubaydah, the highest al-Qaeda official to be captured by the U.S., had told interrogators that he had heard other Osama bin Laden loyalists discussing attacks on the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and other U.S. landmarks. But, a federal law-enforcement official told TIME, Abu Zubaydah had said the conversations took place a while back and claimed he knew of no particular plan. Since his capture in March, Abu Zubaydah has shared some valuable information, says a senior...