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...foul, foul, foul, flare to left center. With his maddening skill at making contact, it's nearly impossible to fire three pitches past Ichiro. When he dives after a curveball in the dirt, as Zito induces him to do in his first at bat, "I can't really pat myself on the back," Zito says. He figures Ichiro just made a rare mistake...
...with a list of four finalists instead. Dean isn't the only one who won't let the mystery die. After three years of research, a University of Illinois journalism professor and his students released a seven-man list last week. Like Dean, they name two-time presidential candidate Pat Buchanan and Nixon aide Steve Bull. The only sleuths who know for sure, Woodward and Bernstein, are keeping mum. --By Rebecca Winters...
...this is a maximum security prison," he says. "Leave your mobile phones, bags and wallets in the lockers provided. Interviews with prisoners are forbidden except with my permission. You will be body searched." He smiles. "And if anything goes wrong, I hope you can run fast." After the promised pat-down and a trip through a metal detector under the scrutiny of granite-jawed guards clutching M-16s and big wooden sticks, the reporters are ushered through two sets of tall steel gates, past drab cellblocks and neat hedges. On bleachers beside the pitch, more than 1,000 inmates await...
...college degree and a fire-chief-of-the-year award turned out to be fabrications. In the past six months, coaches at Notre Dame, Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt were all caught with fiction on their resumes. And these followed a parade of high-profile folks accused of falsifications, including Pat Robertson (claimed he saw combat in Korea), Senator Joseph Biden (inflated his law-school class rank) and historian Joseph Ellis (made up stories about parachuting into Vietnam...
...Rather than being antagonistic, they’re giving us a hug and a pat on the head and then not budging,” says Brown undergraduate Peter Asen, describing the reaction of administrators during the push for graduate student unionization...