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Since Kindergarten, they had been known as "the crew." Still a close-knit group in high school, the five Henderson, Nev., boys were all delighted when Sean Larimer turned 16 and in 2003 became the first to get his driver's license. Sean's mom, Susan Larimer, a hospital nurse who was in the midst of a divorce, was happy about it too. "I thought I needed him to drive," she recalls. So Susan gave her son permission to drive around with the crew one evening just 63 days after he passed his road test...
...Scorsese delivers a film nothing short of a masterpiece in modern storytelling.Irish-American crime lord Frank Costello, played by Jack Nicholson, plants a mole (Damon) in the police force at the same time that the police place an undercover cop (DiCaprio) in Costello’s close-knit crime syndicate. This ingenious premise is complicated further when the two insiders both fall for the same psychiatrist (Vera Farmiga, “Running Scared”) who is unaware of their secrets.The script by William Monahan was adapted from the hit Hong Kong movie, “Infernal Affairs...
...staff, and I have yet to hear a single complaint about noise.” BU Director of Residence Life David J. Zamojski, however, is concerned about the upcoming transition to on-campus dorms. “The students living in the hotels really built a tight-knit community, and it saddens me that most of them are split up in January and forced to adjust to new roommates.” Indeed, Cattall said that he would prefer staying in the Inn to moving into a BU dorm. “I am going to miss having a huge...
...past,” Altchek said, “because the senior class has made a big effort to make the freshman feel a part of the team. And the younger guys have reacted well and really performed on the field. It’s a very closely knit group.” Another factor that could not be discounted was the return to the Harvard lineup of junior Matt Hoff and sophomore Mike Fucito, who rose to the occasion in the second half and provided much of the spark. The duo created numerous opportunities through the middle...
...Still, even though Bin Laden and Zawahiri may no longer speak for a large-scale tight-knit global web of operatives carrying out orders from the center, their tapes can serve as encouragement for localized self-starter cells. "Plotting radicals don't need membership cards or secret handshakes to do clandestine work," the French official says. "What they need is the feeling of association and direction, and at times assistance or orders from above. We've broken a few operational cells nearing attacks whose links and affiliations with the GSPC were fairly remote. But that didn't prevent them from...