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...wanted fugitives - were sent by regular mail, arriving in some police stations and border posts weeks later. To be sure, there were some famous red-notice successes, including the capture of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal) in 1994 and the American murderer Ira Einhorn in 1997. But on the whole, says Mathieu Deflem, a law-enforcement expert at the University of South Carolina, "Interpol's system was retarded - very, very underdeveloped...
...President Bush has proposed a relief package worth about $145 billion to juice consumer spending. If you get a check, financial planners recommend first paying down any high-interest debt, like credit cards. After that, it's smartest to save the money--in a tax-deferred account like an IRA, if you can. That may not be what the government is going for, but if we do slip into a recession, you might need the cushion...
Watching Bell there, I found it easy to see his appeal to the young. He delivers stand-up-style monologues, not three-point sermons. Comic riffs alternate with seemingly naive questions--Letterman crossed with NPR'S Ira Glass--until Bell tightens the rhetorical noose and produces tears or thoughtful silence. His stagecraft is legendary. To illustrate a passage from Leviticus on sacrifice, Bell brought on a live goat, which he released--underlining Jesus' role as the last and greatest sin offering--intoning, "The goat has left the building...
...senior at New York University, Ira Levin placed second in a CBS screenplay competition, pretty much the last time he was edged out of the top spot. He followed his first, Edgar-winning novel, A Kiss Before Dying, with such iconic horror-thriller mega-best sellers as Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives and later wrote the long-running 1978 Broadway hit Deathtrap. Levin...
...something mathematical about the Harvard varsity lightweights this season, something yet more quantifiable than the racing times measured out to hundredths of a second that deny some crews gold medals and give others first place. The Crimson, which fell to Cornell by 0.08 seconds in the 2006 IRA final, knows all too well the minute quantitative differences that separate first, second, and even third place in lightweight varsity racing.This year’s statistic relates not to seconds shaved or seats won, but to personnel.The number? Three.That’s the number of Harvard seniors on this year?...