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Depend on the FBI to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Just as the bureau was about to emerge from the cloud of Waco, leaks disclosed the existence of a powerful FBI-designed e-mail sniffing software code-named Carnivore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ooops! Maybe 'Carnivore' Was Too Meaty... | 7/23/2000 | See Source »

...Malvolio's antics are ultimately meaningless; his strip tease at the beginning of Act Two is the most painful misreading since, well, Act One. In the closing moments of the play, Edelman offers us a brief hope of salvaging Malvolio as an interesting and important character, only to snatch it away from us as the broken steward gleefully joins Feste (Joe Nuccio '01) in a jazzed up rendition of "The Rain It Raineth Every...

Author: By Matthew Hudson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Comedy of Errors: Twelfth Night | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...unhealthily obsessed with... Mark Wahlberg. [collective murmur] It's an elaborate story - according to columnist Richard Jonson, Matt fears Wahlberg as his Ripley-esque rival; Wahlberg is more "real," coming from the streets of Boston instead of the sheltered life of Cambridge and Harvard and Wahlberg can easily snatch up the roles that Damon is too prissy to play. Damon's growing obsession with Wahlberg - he talks about him constantly, even stalked him at points - "became unsettling to Ryder, sources say, so when he made a recent trip to L.A., she found out where Wahlberg was staying and went...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's in the (K)now | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

...those of you who like your comedy with a more socially-minded edge, make your way to the Loker Coffeehouse for Snatch by Frankie Petrosino '02. When Brendan Diggs' mother finds a nudie magazine in his bedroom, she decides to teach her son a lesson in respect for women-Brendan will be spending his last year of high school at the Farnesworth School for Girls. Performances are Thursday through Saturday...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rebirth of the Author | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...plan sounded simple. The CIA would help Pakistan organize a secret unit that would carry out a plot to slip into neighboring Afghanistan to snatch alleged terrorist OSAMA BIN LADEN. CIA officers would be assigned to the unit, and the U.S. would provide training and equipment. PRESIDENT CLINTON approved the plan, and the team should have been off and running last year. In fact, it never left the gate: despite CIA enthusiasm, the Pakistanis dragged their feet and never got beyond basic training. "They didn't do squat," says an Administration official close to the operation. Now the U.S. suspects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The Bin Laden Capture That Never Was | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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