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...huddled with Marcello at a farmhouse on the mobster's delta property. Ferrie later told the FBI that he was helping Marcello map strategy for a perjury and conspiracy trial then under way. (Marcello was acquitted on the day of the assassination.) On the night of the assassination Ferrie drove 350 miles through a rainstorm to Houston, arriving at about 4 a.m. He later insisted that this was a hunting trip, but he spent hours making calls from public phones at a skating rink...
...drive from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, to the hill station of Abbottabad usually takes two hours. But when the recently suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry drove that route to address the local bar association two weeks ago, the journey clocked in at 14. Every small town and junction along the way was thronged with cheering crowds. Banners waved, music blared, and dancing ponies performed. Crowds at rallies for Pervez Musharraf can be just as big, but these days most of the President's well-wishers are bused in. "The government rents crowds for their rallies...
...public streets - hardly an invasion of privacy. Over several months, Google staff (who took shots in San Francisco), as well as employees of a third-party firm (which did the same in Miami, Denver, New York and Las Vegas), equipped vehicles in select cities with imaging equipment and drove the streets, snapping photos of everything in sight. At maps.google.com, users can drag a human figurine over one of the highlighted streets in those cities, and a window will open that displays the photo taken at that very spot. Users can then grab the image and spin it, turning 360 degrees...
...Still, it's good for the local economy. Thomas Hess, the local man who drove me through fields and back roads in pursuit of police-protester interaction Wednesday, is not at all unhappy about the G-8. It has brought a palpable increase in funds to his home town: the roads are newly paved and the buildings replastered and painted. Even the protesters bring extra cash. The supermarket near one of the massive camps housing around 5,000 protesters extended its hours to accommodate the surge in demand for food and drinks...
...yard touchdown that gave Harvard a 28-24 lead. After a series of punts, the Crimson appeared to be driving for an insurance score when, with 6:31 to play in the fourth quarter, a trick-play pass from sophomore wideout Chris Sanders was intercepted. The Tigers promptly drove on the short field, only to face third-and-four at the Crimson 39. A third-down pass was apparently broken up, but a controversial unsportsmanlike conduct penalty was called, giving the Tigers new life. Two plays later, Princeton quarterback Jeff Terrell hit Brendan Circle for a 20-yard touchdown pass...