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...phase." Indeed, senior U.S. intelligence sources tell TIME that they fear a recent spate of terrorist attacks around the world may be a warm-up for a much bigger strike against American interests. Al-Qaeda prisoners now being interrogated, says a senior U.S. counterterrorism official, "keep talking about a spectacular event. And I don't think we saw that event in Bali...
...before Sept. 11. It is serious--they have reconstituted, they are coming after us." Al-Qaeda, U.S. intelligence has concluded, is able to plan an attack on the scale of the one seen a year ago. "They still have the capacity for a spectacular operation," says a U.S. counterterrorism official. "In fact, that's what we are expecting next, or in the near future. We don't have a clue where." Officials fear that such an attack could be launched against any one of a number of American cities. And they are particularly worried about attacks by "conventional" means against...
...They had plenty to choose from, among all the spectacular feats in the sport's 126-year history: making a sensational catch (Willie Mays, 1954), pitching a perfect game (Don Larsen, 1956), smashing a thrilling homer (Bill Mazeroski, 1960, or Carlton Fisk, 1975), hitting a squibbler that took an amazin' bounce (Mookie Wilson, 1986). But they chose one that took no athletic ability at all: walking onto a baseball field at the beginning of a game. When Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles did that on September 6, 1995, he broke Lou Gehrig's iron-man record...
...forced her into it when she was a freshman in high school, but luckily, she fell in love with it,” he said. “We’ve been to the Henley Women’s Regatta [in England, but] this race is much more spectacular for the rowers and attendees...
Husky quarterback Shawn Brady threw for 128 yards and two touchdowns and executed perhaps the most spectacular play of the game at the start of the fourth quarter...