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...would be discussed "in context"--and months later--when congressional investigations into the attacks eventually got under way. And that wasn't the only embarrassing paper kept under wraps. Earlier this month, the Associated Press reported new details from a July 2001 memo by an FBI agent in Phoenix, Ariz., who presciently noted a pattern of Arab men signing up at flight schools. The agent, Kenneth Williams, 42, has spent 11 years working in an FBI antiterrorism task force. He recommended an investigation to determine whether al-Qaeda operatives were training at the schools. He was ignored, and after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The U.S. Missed The Clues | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...news: The White House had indeed gotten an inkling that al-Qaeda terrorists were leaning toward plane-hijacking as their next move against the U.S. A Phoenix FBI agent had urged the bureau to look into Middle Eastern men enrolled in flight schools; a Minneapolis agent even wrote in case notes that Zacarias Moussaoui was the kind of guy who might "fly something into the World Trade Center." But still the U.S. intelligence apparatus was unable to stop 9/11 from happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Ari Fleischer | 5/17/2002 | See Source »

...opposition post for telling an Asian joke. If this is a fireable offense, the Queen might need to find a new consort JASON KIDD NBA star loses out on league MVP. Let's take a moment and remember that before he became a New Jersey Net, he was a Phoenix Wife Beater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...faint trace of tragedy that lurks beneath Spidey’s happy-go-luckiness. Going through my brother’s Marvel trading cards, the heroes I kept coming back to were the beautiful ones whose stories were laced with some kind of sadness, heroes like Rogue, Phoenix, Wolverine and Cloak and Dagger. The best kind of superhero struggles with a crippling weakness, a desire he/she can never fulfill, or, like Spider-Man, a tragic past that motivates his heroic deeds. Spider-Man fights criminals because they killed his dear Uncle Ben. So swoon, people, swoon. To the relief...

Author: By Stephanie L. Lim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Along Came a Spider | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

...Global Leadership, a group that brings in speakers and organizes events to “get the three schools to mingle,” says Geraldine Chin, the host of the show from the Law School. The five judges included representatives from the House of Blues, the Boston Phoenix, Virgin Records and a student from the Medical School. Bands were awarded up to five points in each of the following categories: originality, lyrics, songwriting ability, vocals, instrumentation, expressiveness, audience connection and an overall assessment. The race was a close one, with 159 points going to The Stone Cutters...

Author: By Isabelle Holden, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Graduates | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

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