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...foreign policy and the CIA. He fought successfully all the way to the Supreme Court for the right to keep the 2001 deliberations of his energy task force secret. He was the most outspoken advocate of a bare-knuckled foreign policy, building his own national- security staff, which drove Colin Powell's State Department berserk; Powell chief of staff Larry Wilkerson called Cheney's operation "a cabal" of "extreme nationalistic ... and messianic" members. Cheney pressed the case that there was a connection between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein long after others in the Administration had backed off. He said American...
...clearly frustrated Stehle drew a technical foul, leading to two free throws from Brown point guard Damon Huffman. Forward Chris Skrelja buried a pullup jumper and added a three-pointer on the ensuing possession to widen the lead to 20 with 13 minutes left. Six minutes later, Skrelja drove baseline to give the Bears their biggest lead of the game...
...Thirteen years ago to this very day, his grandmother, Geraldine Hedrick-"my buddy"-died of brain cancer. The combination of grief, cabin fever- he arrived in Torino twelve days before the Games ("rolling around in bed takes it toll on you")-and the pressure of his first Olympic race drove Hedrick to tears. And into the stands, where friends and family tried to calm his down. "I kind of felt like a sissy," says Hedrick...
...logo) every day for weeks to persuade him to create their logo. Glaser's name lent them some instant cool, and that distinctive B is now a familiar New York City signpost. When distributors balked at selling tiny lots of their beer, Hindy and Potter drove the trucks themselves and found salesmen who would patiently teach bar managers and convenience-store owners about specialty beer. They even started distributing rival beers, turning that into a hugely profitable business. "It kept us alive when almost all the other small breweries in our area went bankrupt," Hindy says...
...apparently drove to Charleston, West Virginia, where he picked up Jennifer Rena Bailey, 33, whom police now simply describe as someone with whom Robida had a "prior relationship." And then they were off, unnoticed until they got to Gassville, Arkansas, on Saturday afternoon. The town policeman, James Sell, 63, spotted the car and pulled it over. But Sell never got a chance to question Robida. The policeman was shot and killed as he approached the car. Robida and Bailey then sped...