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...name you're likely to remember in a hurry. Yet the 59-year-old Sri Lankan diplomat, a former ambassador to the U.S., has just become one of the most important people in the Iraq crisis. Dhanapala was tapped by Kofi Annan to lead the U.N.'s "white glove" team of chaperones that will accompany weapons inspectors into Iraqi palaces...
...ties UNSCOM?s hands is not worth coming back to New York with. His spokesman Fred Eckhard indicated that one of the major hurdles in previous Iraqi offers -- time limits on weapons inspections -- was not present in this deal. So how did Annan do it? The so-called ?white glove? solution, diplomats accompanying inspectors, is one possibility, but that?s just window dressing. The secretary general hinted at the real deal when he said the document mentions sanctions -- and looks down the road toward lifting them. That?s one thing, at least, that Washington won?t like the look...
Opening arguments were set to begin at 8 a.m. Monday; the seats behind the prosecution table filled up with victims and their families, including Yale computer-science professor David Gelernter, his mangled right hand encased in a black glove. The defense side was a lonelier place. In the front row sat David Kaczynski, 47, a quiet man with a pained face, whose call to the FBI had marked the beginning of the end. Next to him was his diminutive mother Wanda, 80, who had not seen her son Ted in 15 years, and family lawyer Anthony Bisceglie. A few minutes...
...Scott Peach was the one to inflict the damage. After scoring two power-play goals in a span of 24 seconds against Providence, Peach displayed his scoring touch once again. A rising slapshot by Peach from just over the Harvard blue line surprised Jonas and sailed over his outstretched glove hand to knot the game...
DIED. BUCK LEONARD, 90, Hall of Fame first baseman hailed as the Lou Gehrig of the Negro Leagues; in Rocky Mount, N.C. With flawless glove work and a career batting average well above .300, Leonard anchored the Washington Homestead Grays from 1934 to 1950. "We had our own league, like another world," he recalled philosophically, "and we played like no other league existed...