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...dignified Dream Teamer, was asked if the rest of the world was growing less awestruck of the American professionals. Yes, he said, "and our job is to re-create that awe." Carl Lewis did that in Atlanta, and Michael Johnson, and Alexei Nemov, and Deng Yeping. All Atlanta, no stranger to reconstruction, set about making the wonder feel young again...
...explosion is touched off by a fanatic or a mischief maker--the cause is buried by the effect. A bomb is like the physical equivalent of an insinuation--an anonymous, handwritten note that says, "Just when you thought you were safe..." Terror now lurks in the shadows like a stranger in a dark ramp behind the parade of nations...
Harvard is, however, no stranger to bomb scares and suspicious packages. According to Harvard Police Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy, there have been 58 suspicious packages reported and four bomb threats phoned in over the past year. Several of the packages turned out to be potentially dangerous and had to be checked out by Cambridge or Boston police, he says...
ROBERT DOWNEY JR., it can be safely said, has never been considered the most wholesome of actors. But even seasoned Downey watchers were alarmed when he was found, mere hours after being charged with drug possession, asleep in a stranger's house four blocks from his home. The homeowner, who discovered him when she put her children to bed, called the police, and Downey spent the night in a hospital-jail ward. He left the next day wearing slippers and a hat fashioned from a T shirt. By week's end, damage control was in full swing: Downey...
Politics may make strange bedfellows, but in north Cambridge, it makes even stranger neighbors...