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...Yemenis aren't being accused of stonewalling, as such, but there appears to have been a shoe-challenging case of foot-dragging on the investigation into the bombing of the USS Cole. Speaking off the record, U.S. officials have complained that the Yemenis have limited their access to sites containing possible evidence and barred them from interviews with suspects and witnesses. This despite President Clinton's personal intervention last week imploring Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh to allow a "genuine joint investigation...
...Cleveland, Ohio. Usually, his staff rents a mere midsize car for him when he travels, but when the folks at the rental counter heard it was Ralph Nader who'd be tooling around in their vehicle, they offered an upgrade. This is a rare indulgence, though, in this shoe-string campaign. Nader has no motorcade, no private jet. He travels with just one staff member, flies coach and looks more like a rumpled academic than a presidential candidate...
...Giants won that Series and the next year's too. In the first game of the 1923 Series, Stengel hit the first World Series home run ever in Yankee Stadium, an inside-the-park job that broke a 4-4 tie in the ninth. He lost his shoe while running; Damon Runyon made fun of him in the papers. Two days later, Casey hit another homer and thumbed his nose at the Yankees while rounding third. Ruth hit three that year, though, as the Yanks won their first of 25 championships...
...international editorial operations and set up Christopher Redman and Donald Morrison, two longtime veterans of TIME, as regional editors in London and Hong Kong. This week we are proud to announce the first cycle of successions in this successful enterprise. Redman, editor of TIME Europe, is returning to frenetic shoe-leather journalism as an editor-at-large based in London, stepping back into the world of what he calls "'real' journalism--reporting and writing stories rather than shepherding other people's prose into print." Not that Redman has had an unexciting tenure. During the past few weeks alone...
...Cover That Lens! b) These Old Broads c) Mickey Rooney's Red Shoe Diaries d) The Old and the Beautiful...