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...What do we know?" Cheney pressed CIA operatives. "This could be another 9/11. This one we can't miss...
Rick Shannon senses that something is wrong when the retired record producers he has been hired to find keep turning up freshly murdered--one with a fork still sticking out of his back. Shannon is a weeknight DJ at a classic-rock station in Vicksburg, Miss., who runs a detective agency by day. The case that drives this Southern-fried page-turner revolves around a dying cotton dynasty, an OxyContin-popping former football star and tapes of a late-night blues session that have been missing for 50 years. Fitzhugh's dialogue is as cool as a pitcher of iced...
...fouls were adding up, and in the 22nd minute they proved fatal. A free kick from the right wing found its way to an unmarked Alberto Gilardino, and he did not miss with the header. The U.S. has had a glaring weakness in restarts after fouls - it was evident in warm-up games, and the problem hadn't eased any here. But before Italy had a chance to set up its bolt-the-door defense for the night, the Americans were level. Italy's Cristian Zaccardo knocked Bobby Convey's cross into...
...shake a tree and a celebrity falls out. Hill, who is in the midst of a hunger strike that wound up lasting 26 days, encourages me as I ascend. "So often in our lives fear holds us back," Hill yells down at me, smiling. "And most of us miss out on the magic of life because of that one little word." I wonder if by week three, Gandhi was this chipper...
...special-ops sources, the task force's commandos closed in on his vehicle west of Baghdad near the Euphrates River, but he escaped. After every getaway, al-Zarqawi went further underground and beefed up his personal security. "I would like to say that every time we had a near miss, we got closer and closer," says a knowledgeable Pentagon official. "But that's not necessarily the case. After both close calls, there were periods where we had no information...