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...exactly the host you'd expect: relaxed, honest, easy. Four years ago, when I left a message with his publicist to set up a time to talk to him, he simply called my voice mail and left his home number. In the summer, at his six-house compound in Lake Como, Italy, he throws nightly Algonquin-style dinners featuring such guests as Al Gore, Walter Cronkite and Quincy Jones. "He's an excellent host," says Tony Gilroy, director of Michael Clayton. "He's really smart about figuring out what people need and want. Are they hot? Happy? Cold? Thirsty...
...jeans, blows the dust out of his nose, rinses his hands and returns to the table. The shriek starts again, and Clooney thinks for a few seconds, ducks down and yanks the carbon monoxide detector out of the outlet. "Either it needs a battery," he says, "or we have six seconds to live...
...Cornell sophomore Alex Tyler not only scorched the Crimson for 19 points, making 9-of-11 field goals, but also scored six of those points in the last 25 seconds, crushing any Harvard hopes of breaking its five-game losing streak...
...take the four-goal lead at the half.Despite a tremendous effort by co-captain Lauren Snyder (who led all scorers with five goals) and a stellar performance by junior netminder Nicola Perlman, the Tigers’ first half lead proved to be insurmountable. Both teams scored six in the second half, and Princeton’s early run was the difference in the final tally.Snyder, who led the team in scoring for the weekend, was able to find openings against a Princeton defense that was heavily preoccupied with the Crimson’s enviable collection of lethal finishers...
Living several blocks away from Vasquez was an alleged drug trafficker working for the powerful Sinaloa cartel named Rogelio Mena. Police had arrested Mena two days before the blast, along with six other men and an arsenal of weaponry including a Barrett anti-aircraft gun. He is being held for 90 days on suspicion of racketeering and weapons offenses. The Sinaloa cartel has been blamed for carrying out many of the attacks on police and soldiers this year. Federal agents say they also foiled an attempt by the gang to assassinate Federal Prosecutor Jose Luis Santiago, who oversees the extradition...