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...relief to a jittery city. In Birmingham, in the center of England, police snared Yasin Hassan Omar, allegedly the man shown on closed-circuit-television tapes who was planning to bomb the Warren Street underground station. The Peabody bust netted Ibrahim Muktar Said, suspected of trying to bomb a bus in east London, and Ramzi Mohammed, who fled from the Oval station after allegedly leaving a bomb. And in Italy, authorities announced they had caught Osman Hussain (also referred to as Hussain Osman by British police), who is alleged to have tried to blow up a train at the Shepherd...
...Brazilian had been wearing an unusually heavy coat for summer when plainclothes cops chased him onto a train and revealed previously secret "shoot to kill" guidelines for dealing with suicide bombers. The incident occurred the day after four bombs went off almost simultaneously on Underground trains and a bus in a chilling echo of the blasts that killed 56 people two weeks ago. But this time only the detonators blew up. One theory is that the bombs came from the same batch of home-brewed explosive used on July 7, which can degrade quickly...
...Berry was right when he declared that, among the BLOHARDS, all that matters is loving the Sox. Breeding, position, intelligence, wealth-these things don?t mean much when you?re wearing a baseball cap. This salient fact was acted out, in a way, as the bus parked behind Fenway, and the unsteady BLOHARDS piled out and headed gleefully for the window to pick up tickets that had been left for them by Arthur Moscato, the estimable ticket director, and Dick Bresciani, the cherished media-relations chief. There were, presumably, some pretty bright and pretty successful people in this ragtag, slightly...
...BLOHARDS all over the lot. There was a big BLOHARD in Section 22, Row 21, Seat 14 (names withheld). Seat 14 is a school administrator from Manhattan who sheepishly admitted to me that he was ?playing hooky.? He had called too late to get a seat on the bus, but had driven up nonetheless...
...Happily, very happily, the BLOHARDS headed back to their bus. They settled into their seats, cracked open ?Gansetts and started chattering away in BLOHARDS fashion. ?Surely Oil Can Boyd will win 20 games this season, and surely the Sox will score 900 runs . . . Surely we?ll finish ahead of the Yanks, surely we?ll win the pennant . . .Surely we?ll be World Champions, just like we were only yesterday, in 1918 . . .? One by one, BLOHARDS fells asleep. When they awoke, they were back in New York, exiles again, forced anew to take what nourishment they might from those unreasonable dreams...