Word: bus
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This year's Capa award seemed especially ironic to Nachtwey, since the presentation came the day after the bombing of the Colombo bus station. Says he: "The recent news from Sri Lanka has underlined for me a sense of futility about effecting some kind of positive change in the world. But I believe journalists have to keep trying to shed some light on troubled areas...
...minor-league catcher, coach and manager, Trebelhorn somehow withstood a thousand bus rides from Boise to Walla Walla without becoming very tobacco splattered. He is a substitute math teacher in the off-season and is as reasonable as he is unrecognizable. When Rookie Catcher B.J. Surhoff was called out for straying from the base path, Trebelhorn raced to the umpire, saying, "Look, you know the rule and I know the rule. But the players don't know the rule and the fans don't know the rule. So we have to stand here and argue awhile, O.K.?" "Treb" came...
...last thing that Shin Bet, Israel's equivalent of the FBI, needs is the hint of fresh scandal. The agency has been reeling from charges that it covered up the murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers in 1984, an affair that led eleven top Shin Bet officials to accept a presidential pardon in order to avoid possible criminal charges. Yet last week, amid newspaper headlines that screamed NEW SCANDAL, more trouble is exactly what Shin...
...Israeli press quickly identified the head Shin Bet investigator in the Napso case as Yossi Ginossar, who resigned from the agency in the bus- hijacking scandal. Ginossar, now director of the state-owned Israel Export Institute, issued a statement through his lawyer that news reports linking him to evidence tampering in the Napso case "were without any basis in reality." Shin Bet officials, who for security reasons want to avoid a public airing of their methods and operations in open court, have sounded out Napso on the possibility of a pardon. So far, he has rebuffed the entreaties...
...into the middle of a shootout on the streets of New York City and, eventually, into the seductive claws of his nymphomaniac aunt. She's not the only one warm for Fox's form, though. Beautiful blond heads begin to turn the moment Foster alights from his Manhattan-bound bus...