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Trailing 9-3 entering the seventh, the Crimson made it interesting. After Hendricks reached base on a fielder’s choice and Mann on single, Hordon came to the plate with two on and two out. He fell behind 0-2—the second strike coming on a vicious swing at a fastball high and out of the zone—before blasting a three-run homer to pull the score to 9-6. Herrmann popped up to end the game...
...that the CIA "made mistakes" and warned that it would take an additional five years to rebuild the clandestine service. In what is perhaps the closest anyone in the Bush Administration has come to a formal acknowledgment of responsibility, Tenet said, "We all understood bin Laden's attempt to strike the homeland, but we never translated this knowledge into an effective defense of the country." But Cofer Black, head of the CIA's clandestine service who holds the storied title of director for operations, was unbowed. "I've heard people say this country wasn't at war. I want...
...outraged Palestinians quickly crowded around the wreckage, some waving bloodstained clothing lifted from the gutted car, others covering their palms in the blood that had pooled inside. Muhammed Barakeh, a left-wing Arab member of the Israeli Assembly, charged that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had ordered the strike to bolster his standing with rightist supporters. But an Israeli military spokesman countered that Rantisi had been "directly responsible for the deaths of scores of Israelis." The assassination came just hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and an Israeli guard at a Gaza border crossing. Hamas...
...system's advantages. It enhances local intelligence gathering, he argues; the real problem is timely analysis and dissemination. Everyone agrees on the need for improvement, but some think a little tinkering will do. Not Schily. In the war against terrorism, he says, "We can't wait for lightning to strike before we jump into action...
...Mamet play Oleanna, her London debut. She plays the student protagonist, who tenuously accuses her teacher of sexual harassment, and torments him until he snaps. As Stiles lay on the stage and her co-star, fellow Hollywood denizen Aaron Eckhart (Erin Brockovich, Paycheck) raised a chair as if to strike her, a woman in the front row of the Garrick Theatre shouted: "Do it!" Stiles, 23, was shaken. "It was so frightening," Eckhart says, speaking to TIME the day after the incident. "She was in such close proximity to me and you have to take it personally...