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...nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. The Sopranos showed how quickly tragedy can become a banal, catchall excuse, as mobster Tony Soprano phonily blamed his behavior on 9/11 during a therapy session. Oh, and that business about movies not blowing up buildings? The Sum of All Fears blew up Baltimore, Md...
...situation called for subtlety, smarts and swiftness, and for a few days people wondered whether a man named Moose was the right person for the task. But with all eyes on him, the Montgomery County, Md., police chief led some 1,000 investigators in a 22-day manhunt for the snipers who haunted Washington's suburbs. In the end, he got the duo believed to be the shooters, and America got a new hero...
...leader in either house of Congress, Pelosi has practical experience in doing the impossible. She will need it for her next assignment: an unapologetic liberal, she must bring unity and direction to a Democratic Party still smarting from its midterm spanking. As the daughter of an old-school Baltimore, Md., ward boss, Pelosi might just be the woman...
DIED. THEODORE SHACKLEY, 75, the mysterious CIA operative known as the Blond Ghost; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. In a 28-year career he saw undercover duty in many cold war hot spots (West Berlin, Laos, Vietnam) and was the subject of the 1994 book Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades...
DIED. PHILIP BERRIGAN, 79, former priest whose fight against the Vietnam War and nuclear arms helped inspire a generation of antiwar dissenters; of cancer; in Baltimore, Md. Berrigan led the Catonsville Nine, which staged one of the era's most dramatic protests, dousing a bonfire of draft records with homemade napalm in a Catonsville, Md., parking...