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Just as impressive is the timing—at a place with 369 years of inertia, the final two dining hall renovations went on according to schedule and without a hitch. In just 10 short summer weeks, Mather and Dunster received their facelifts, and almost nobody besides a few tutors and masters seemed to notice—at least until their waffles emerged emblazoned with the Harvard’s “VERITAS” crest...
There was only one hitch: waiting for the man in Chicago's O'Hare airport were FBI agents who were tracking his travels as part of an investigation and wanted to interview him. The FBI had to appeal to the TSA to get the man off the list, and the next day he flew to Chicago. The investigation is still under...
...Army's supersecret Delta Force had a vital mission last October: fly to the Mediterranean and prepare to rescue the hostages aboard the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. But there was an unusual last-minute hitch. An undisclosed number of the elite counterterrorist troops were under investigation for in effect cheating on their expense accounts, and had to get a special dispensation from the Pentagon to leave their home base at Fort Bragg...
...occasional wrinkle, an odd hitch in these tidy instructions pops up in the form of a fierce local sirocco that hurls itself at cyclonic force across the plains of eastern Colorado. It moves as a solid wall of dust, opaque and hard on the nerves of any ill-informed motorist it happens to catch. All a fool can do in these circumstances is listen to the finish of the car being grit-blasted away. Even with the windows closed, the dirt piles up on the dashboard and gathers in the folds of clothes and collects on the tongue. Coming...
Although the raids took place nearly 500 miles apart, they were staged almost simultaneously and went off without a hitch. At dawn in the leafy, colonial town of Leesburg, Va., local officers, state police and federal agents surrounded two buildings that house the headquarters of Right-Wing Extremist Lyndon LaRouche. In Quincy, Mass., seven FBI agents entered a branch office of Caucus Distributors Inc., a LaRouche-run company, and seized documents. Later the same day a federal grand jury in Boston handed up a 117-count indictment charging ten defendants with obstruction of justice and more than $1 million...