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...Track him down the old-fashioned way, paying off locals until he's just around the corner, then surround him, strap on the night-vision gear, take out the guards and do him in. Problem: in the tribal lands of Pakistan, he's a hero, and the U.S. has few agents who can blend in among the people...
DIED. EDDIE BRACKEN, 87, New York City-born comedian and actor who played, with hilarious but heartbreaking pungency, the perfect small-town sap in two classic 1944 Preston Sturges comedies, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero; in Montclair, N.J. His 70-year show-biz career included a Tony-nominated stint opposite Carol Channing in Broadway's Hello, Dolly!; a recurring guest role on TV's The Golden Girls; and appearances in the films National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) and Rookie of the Year...
There are lots of sounds you might associate with Beretta firearms: the rhythmic pop-pop of pistol fire at a police range, the boom of a hunter's single shotgun blast, the crack of steel on steel as a movie hero slams home a magazine. But in an airy second-floor studio here at the headquarters of the world's oldest firearms manufacturer, in the iron-rich alpine foothills of Gardone Val Trompia, Italy, there's another, more delicate sound: the staccato tapping of engravers adding the tiny finishing touches to the company's custom-made shotguns. And we mean...
...mastermind" behind last month's Bali bombing in which at least 190 people died. Computer expert Imam Samudra, 35, confessed to choosing the nightclub as a target and leading planning meetings. He also confessed to a string of bomb attacks on churches in 2000. MEANWHILE Lightyear's Ahead Galactic hero Buzz Lightyear took time off battling the evil Zorg to fight crime in Hereford, Britain. Police were looking for a thief who'd stolen a toy from Woolworth's, when an electronic voice crackled out: "Buzz Lightyear, permission to engage!" They found the crook hiding under a bridge...
...Hero of the Game