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Harvard must now win its final two league games and hope that Princeton loses to Penn in order to make the NCAA tournament. For a team that controlled its own destiny such a short time ago, that scenario is tough to handle...
Even stranger, Dayton sent his staff home several days after the CIA toned down the dramatic multiple-attack scenario, which the intelligence community "no longer believed to be valid," says the official. The CIA's initial report conflicted sharply with assessments by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security that al-Qaeda is no longer able to mount synchronized spectacular events. In fact, fears of a pre-election attack have eased as an all-out push by law-enforcement and intelligence officers has failed to detect any trace of a terrorist cell operating in the U.S. "It's about...
...ostensibly out of concern for his staff's safety, many on Capitol Hill wondered if the Minnesota Democrat knew something everyone else didn't. The answer, it turns out, is far from it. Dayton last month received the same briefing as his fellow Senators about a CIA worst-case scenario involving simultaneous terrorist attacks across the country. Yet he apparently took the hypothetical threat as an imminent one. "Most people who heard the briefing," sniffs an intelligence official, "understood the context. It was theoretical...
...jail—she was arrested for either drug abuse, prostitution or all of the above: the incoherent script never clarifies and, honestly, no audience could really care less about these particulars. The point of this movie is to illustrate a fable rather than sticking close to a comprehensible scenario...
While working on a film adaptation of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the screenplay for Damon and Affleck’s alleged brainchild, Good Will Hunting, plummets from the ceiling or perhaps from the heavens. The resultant scenario finds the two reacting in unexpected ways to the discovery, amidst “cameos” by Gwyneth Paltrow and J.D. Salinger and a screwy, violent climax. Humorous references to the duo’s headline-grabbing history pepper the play and provide rich comic fodder...