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Mazza, a 6’4 wide receiver from Thousand Oaks High School in Thousand Oaks, Calif., chose Harvard over full scholarships from Division I-A schools Boise St., Hawaii and Colorado St., as well as Princeton. Despite the distance, it was a decision firmly supported by his parents, Jerry and Donna Mazza...
...Actors knew that a Hirschfeld sketch granted them immortality - at least for a week. So it was rare, maybe one occasion in a thousand, when a subject would take issue with the artist's elaboration. Allen Funt, the creator and host of "Candid Camera," complained that he was made to look like an ape (orangutan or baboon?) in a Hirschfeld drawing. Al's response: "I had nothing to do with that. That was God's work...
American and British officials were more excited about another exercise by the inspectors the same day. British sources say about a thousand pages of documents relating to Iraqi weapons programs were seized, under protest, after inspectors visited the homes of two scientists in Baghdad. White House officials said the documents deal with nuclear programs; Mohamed ElBaradei, the U.N.'s chief nuclear inspector, later indicated that the trove includes details of an old enriched-uranium project. There may be more such discoveries ahead. Both the British and the Americans are giving the inspectors intelligence leads (the British claim responsibility...
What's worse than sitting in a cramped airline seat for a six-hour flight across the country? Having to stay awake and alert the whole time. That's the job of the nation's several thousand federal air marshals (FAMs), a force of highly trained security officers who travel incognito on selected flights to look out for possible trouble. Though the number of FAMs has increased dramatically since Sept. 11, 2001, the exhausting and often boring job is causing morale problems. In response, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is about to take some agents off airplanes and reassign them...
...early May, Wuhan's police formed a special investigation team, which eventually grew to more than a thousand cops. The cases were such a high priority that the team members were made to work overtime and cancel their vacations. Young female officers walked the empty streets at night as bait. But the Red Dress Killer continued to strike, thanks in part to police slip-ups and lost opportunities. Despite the rising body count, Wuhan's police didn't check with neighboring cities, including Yueyang, for similar cases. The summer murders took place in a district crammed with migrants, but Inspector...