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...four G-forces pushing you into the sled, that's cool," says Utahan Lincoln DeWitt, 34. He was first in the World Cup rankings last year, but has slid a bit this year. He certainly has a shot at winning, as does teammate Jim Shea Jr., 33, of Lake Placid...
Then came the attacks of Sept. 11. In the view of many experts on terrorism, it was al-Zawahiri as much as bin Laden who launched them. Placid looking, almost avuncular--especially for a man who has been sentenced to death in absentia by the Egyptians--al-Zawahiri, 50, is by choice a less visible symbol of terror than bin Laden. Three years ago, at a small press conference in the Afghan city of Khost, bin Laden announced the formation of the World Islamic Front for the Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, an umbrella group of radicals from across...
This summer Packard was one of four Harvard hockey players invited to take part in the USA Summer Hockey Challenge at Lake Placid...
...Yankee Stadium and this whole grieving city with an innocent, silly joyousness that it desperately needed. In the process they added another chapter to the Yankee mystique that the Diamondback players kept insisting didn?t exist. ?The most unbelievable couple of games I?ve ever managed,? said the normally placid Yankee manager Joe Torre...
...were told that a counterstrike might follow last week's air attacks on Afghanistan. But we did not expect that it would come so soon or that the weapon of choice would be videotape. About an hour after the bombing campaign began, Americans were dumbstruck to see the placid face of the enemy, Osama bin Laden, in their living rooms. Outside a secret cave hideout, a Kalashnikov rifle beside him, he directly challenged the official U.S. line by casting the fight, in flowery classical Arabic, as one between Islam and the West. "America," he said, "will never taste security...