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...complaints by implementing a game of the week policy which banned all other contests from the airwaves. Schools were limited to one appearance per year, but might be kept off the air altogether at the NCAA’s discretion, as Harvard was in 1952 when the DuMont network’s efforts to air The Game in New York were rejected by the NCAA, since NBC had placed the winning bid for the year’s exclusive broadcast rights...
...regulated and closely watched to pose any terror threat. Officials frequently bragged about the sophistication of their high-tech border controls, claiming they would be sure to snare any known unsavory characters at the port of entry. Those boasts withered last week, however, in the face of revelations that Dumont slipped undetected in and out of the country four times on a fake French passport, while also being on an international wanted list. The possibility of such infiltration has added credence to the single explicit threat made against Japan by a purportedly al-Qaeda-affiliated group last November for Tokyo...
...wasn't alone. In a sweep that jolted the nation, police last week raided about 10 locations (including two homes in Nishi-Kawaguchi) and arrested five foreign men suspected to have been in contact with Lionel Dumont, a 33-year-old Frenchman believed to have ties to al-Qaeda. Dumont was arrested in Germany in December and extradited to France last month for crimes he was convicted of committing there in the 1990s while a member of a radical Islamist group known as the Roubaix gang. For now, four of the men-two from Bangladesh, one from Mali and another...
...Paul Hoffman writes about games for "The New Yorker". His next book, "Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight", will be published in the spring
...Paul Hoffman writes about games for "The New Yorker". His next book, "Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight", will be published in the spring