Word: eleventh
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When Bobby receives an adult library card for his eleventh birthday instead of the cherry red Schwinn bicycle he has been dreaming of, he is at first disappointed. He knows his mother (Hope Davis) complains about money (his gambling addicted father died leaving nothing but bills), but he had hoped that perhaps she’d find a way to give him his present anyway. But soon, a mysterious stranger (Hopkins), who introduces himself as Ted Braughtigan, moves in upstairs and offers to pay Bobby a dollar a week to read the newspaper aloud to him and to watch...
...sweating under the lights of four major outside investigations. Three of the probes - one into how FBI agent Robert Hanssen could have operated within the bureau as a spy, another on the indictment of another FBI agent for selling information to organized crime and the third on the eleventh-hour discovery of some 4,000 pages of documents that had not been handed over to defense lawyers for Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh - were ordered by Attorney General John Ashcroft. The fourth, a blue ribbon panel headed by former FBI director William Webster, was commissioned by former director Louis Freeh...
...into the uproar over the Tim McVeigh execution delay, we encountered FBI deputy director Tom Pickard and terrorism division chief Dale Watson trudging glumly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the Justice Department to the Hoover building. These two had had the unhappy task of informing Louis Freeh about the eleventh-hour discovery of a few thousand stray documents in the McVeigh case. We remarked that they didn't look too bloody for a couple of guys who had been at ground zero when the Director went off like a bushel basket of grenades...
...Crimson did receive a strong showing in the foil, as junior Emily Katz won five of her seven bouts to place third and junior co-captain Ellen Schulz finished eleventh. In addition, the sabre squad placed third...
...IFAs, Harvard finished a lackluster eleventh. Even still, the men's and women's squads combined for a eighth-place overall showing, a one-spot improvement over last year...