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Detroit pretty much invented carjacking, so its police force has had the most practice in fighting it. They've spent the past three months trying to find the killer of Mark Rayner, a 255-lb. National Golden Gloves heavyweight champ, who was carjacked for his new white Jeep Grand Cherokee when he stopped at a phone booth on his way home from a movie. When he tried to escape by driving off, the thugs opened fire. At least five bullets hit the side of his Jeep; two hit Rayner in the back, killing him instantly...
...former drug czar (and Republican presidential hopeful) Bill, has spent 35 of his 54 years in Washington. But he was shaped by blue-collar Brooklyn and nuns that made him toe the line ("If you did something wrong, they hit you"). He was a Flatbush Boys Club boxing champ, such a scrapper that his mother paid him a nickel for each day he didn't get into a fight...
...child sex trade in Bangkok. Last year the group disclosed the existence of a Swiss network of airline-ticket agencies catering to European pedophiles; one was shut down. Then last August the task force focused on Lauda Air, the Austrian-based airline owned by former auto-racing champ Niki Lauda, for running a caricature in its in-flight magazine that allegedly promoted child sex tourism...
...other semifinal, which will also be played tomorrow, pits co-Ivy champ Princeton against second-ranked Maryland, the defending national champions...
NOTES: Elsewhere in the Ivy League, Pennsylvania and Princeton travel to Yale and Brown. Having won five of their last six, Princeton is a likely candidate to defeat Ivy champ Brown...The 10-0 Bears have the opportunity to become the first-ever undefeated women's basketball team in the Ancient Eight...Harvard will end its season next. Tuesday at Dartmouth...