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...gold-medal game between the U.S. and China. With a runner on first in a scoreless game, she lifted a fly ball deep down the right-field line. As it sailed toward the foul pole, the exuberant 5-ft. 5-in. shortstop crouched low on the base path (so the home-plate umpire could see better, she later explained), then leaped in the air as the ball was ruled fair. The Chinese team disputed the call for 10 minutes, to no avail, and the homer provided the winning 3-1 score, bringing the favored U.S. team a long-awaited gold...
...Schumacher paints by the numbers, but he does it well, guiding the movie along the parallel tracks of escalation (in court, out of court) that the novel handily provides. From the very beginning, following the careening path of the redneck's pick-up truck, we feel it's rolled right off the pages on to the screen. Readers of the book might become bored because of its own decidedly cinematic feel: Ruby-style shooting of suspects, Ku Klux Klan marches against Carl Lee's supporters and the like...
Karadzic grew up a hill-country peasant boy in a society ripped apart by World War II and ferocious ethnic battles. His path to power was winding, complicated and unlikely. Born on June 19, 1945, in a tiny mountainside hamlet in the republic of Montenegro, he tended the farm animals and listened to traditional songs of brave battles against the Turks--learning nationalism by osmosis. His father was away during those early years, imprisoned for his wartime deeds as a member of the Chetniks, nationalist guerrillas who fought Nazi occupiers and Marshal Tito's communist partisans alike. After eight years...
...knack for being in the right place at the right reportorial time. For five years her remarkable contributions from the former Yugoslavia have added an enriching dimension to TIME's coverage of the conflagration; this week's story on Bosnian ex-President Radovan Karadzic--which charts his path from farm boy to psychiatrist to indicted war criminal--is no exception. "The thing I admire most about Alexandra," says Richard Hornik, TIME's deputy chief of correspondents, "is that she hates not getting the real story and simply will not stop until...
...evaluate the information from the tapes and data recorder, Rivera says, the FBI is continuing what they're calling a "world-wide investigation." She adds: "There have been some very low points in this investigation, but it seems the NTSB and the FBI are now on the right path." -->