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...that it gave the Royals a head start on replacing their artificial surface with real grass. One of the great ironies of our time-all right, a slight exaggeration-is that the 66-year-old Toma, a groundkeeper so renowned he has his own autographed rake, presided over a carpet all these years. "I count this as one of the greatest days of my life," he said before the game. Indeed it was Toma, arriving in a pink Cadillac and dressed in white tails, who threw out the first ball...
...Called on the Carpet...
...Committee that the agency failed to tell Congress what it knew about the murder of an American citizen in Guatemala in 1990 -- not to mention the role a Guatemalan officer paid by the cia may have played in the killing. Studeman's excuse: the case simply "slipped under the carpet." "That's a big carpet," responded Senator Richard Shelby, as he and other panel members accused the agency of intentionally misleading Congress about the agency's latest budding scandal...
...examined photographs ofblood stains found inside the Ford Broncothat prosecutors contend the defendant drove home after knifing to death his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. The photos showed stains all over the driver's side -- on the door, above the door handle, on the carpet, the steering wheel and the instrument panel -- plus four red stains on the plastic console between the front seats. Prosecutors have told the jury thatsophisticated DNA testsfound that the blood in the Bronco matched samples from Simpson as well as the two victims...
...Cape Town last week, motorcycle outriders escorted President Nelson Mandela to Parliament, where a red carpet ribboned down the granite steps. Leaving his limousine, Mandela was greeted by a navy honor guard in spotless whites. Air force jets flew overhead, and a 21-gun salute rang out from nearby Signal Hill. Beginning his second year in office, Mandela had arrived to open a new session of Parliament, and the spectacle suited the occasion--to all who remember apartheid, the very existence of a Mandela administration in South Africa is still amazing...