Word: supers
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...January 1981, the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the super-secret Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which oversees counterterrorist units like the Delta Force, to devise a rescue operation. Tuttle says the DIA built a tabletop-size model of the Laotian camp based on satellite photos and took it to Fort Bragg in North Carolina to help the JSOC with its planning. Members of the Delta Force say the commandos then planned to construct a full-scale mock- up in the Philippines to practice its raid; as cover, it would pretend to be a Hollywood company shooting a commando movie...
...Keanu Reeves, the famous movie superstar! America had just added the prefix "super" to his title when I saw him, although what he did to be promoted in the legions of teeny-bopper magazines from "star" to "superstar" I do not know...
Harvard's 18-13 loss to Cornell on Saturday was a case in which the trap snapped. For 58:58 of a one-hour game, the Crimson (2-2 overall, 1-1 Ivy) floated on the hopes of undeserved victory, only to lose on a touchdown by Cornell super-back Chad Levitt with 1:02 left. Appropriately, Crimson moods after the game were those of disappointed felons rather than violated property holders...
...visit with Michael Douglas on the set of Disclosure. "Only on Entertainment Tonight," trumpets its competitor, "can you get an exclusive look" at the new Star Trek movie. "You won't see it anywhere else . . ." "Now, only on Extra!" -- the reporting coups come faster than commercials during the Super Bowl...
...evening with friends, however, was no Super Bowl or NBA Finals' party. Instead, she was following "The Chase"--O.J. Simpson's funereal procession across the highways of Los Angeles in a white Ford Bronco...