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...understatement. The bomb, a very sophisticated one, is intended to persuade its recipient, Freelance Writer Robert Halliday, that the sender is a man to be taken seriously. Next, through devious channels, follows a more attractive package: an offer to the writer to edit "a definitive work on the nature of terrorism"-based on the newly discovered journals of a 19th century anarchist named Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechayev. Halliday's fee: $50,000. Such jack being rare for a hack, Halliday warily takes on the job. It leads him to Italy and to the mailer of the bomb, an unsavory entrepreneur...
...deal turns out to be as fishy as the dealer. Instead of penciling a manuscript-there is no manuscript-Halliday finds himself enmeshed in devious negotiations initiated by a Persian Gulf emir identified only as the Ruler. The potentate is eager to lease territory he controls to NATO as a major allied military base. Zander-Luccio, the Pike, serves as middleman in the deal, hoping that a grateful U.S. Government will thereafter provide him with political asylum and a new identity. After a long career of nastiness in the Middle East, he has learned that he is the target...
...majority of Crimson players echo captain Al Halliday, who said, "We know we won't be embarrassed," and added that "if we play up to our capabilities and the matches come down to aggressiveness and loose play. I can't see anyone beating us." Prop Keith Cooper expressed the same sentiments when he said, "The key to winning will be aggressiveness and doing some assassinating...
...Halliday sees the Crimson's biggest weakness as the small size of its pack, which weakens the ruggers' play in lineouts and scrums...
...Harvard and Berkeley meet in the finals, as Knauss predicts, "the best collegiate backline will be pitted against the best frontline." With both clubs playing at their best, Halliday says that the "continuously improving play of second row Dave Sauve may determine the outcome...