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...Today, the walls of Santana High School in Santee, Calif., are pocked with hastily covered bullet holes. And while the halls are once again filled with students, there are some absences. This weekend, the community will gather to say good-bye to its dead and attempt to collect its shattered illusions of safety. And the rest of the country will watch, feeling guiltily grateful that the latest shooting happened there - and not here...
...letters and documents stunned even the ferrets in the back room. Here appeared to be incontrovertible evidence that one of their own was responsible for irreparable damage to U.S. security over many years. But that was old stuff: now the agents wanted to catch him in the act, to collect hard evidence that would stand up in court--or persuade Hanssen he was better off confessing...
...drama, NYPD Blue. The premise: the FBI's New York City office is investigating the Russian mob (and perhaps persons much higher) when it runs into a snag--dogged N.Y.P.D. cop Mike Mooney (Ed O'Neill, who almost makes you forget he's Al Bundy and the 1-800-COLLECT guy). When Mooney, looking into a stripper's murder, steps on the FBI's case, the bureau folds him and his partner into its team. But the two cops find themselves steered wrong by the feds, who are in turn steered wrong by an enigmatic informant (Michael Madsen...
...task force plans to have a survey to collect input from the student body and will hold an open meeting, expected to be next week, where students can offer suggestions in person...
...tobacco industry. The settlement compensates the states for the damage caused by cigarettes to their citizens' health to the tune of $200 billion over 25 years. As a result of the huge payout, the lawyers who represented the states in these cases and who negotiated the settlement stand to collect fees of more than $10 billion over the next 20 years. Bush's proposal, which has not yet been introduced in Congress, aims to take a substantial portion of those fees and give them back to the states...