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Some alleged terrorist plans were very close to home. Counterterrorism officials say they received a phone tip that unnamed members of Congress could be the targets of assassination attempts. On Wednesday, U.S. Capitol Police chief Terry Gainer warned House members to be on alert for attempts on their lives. At a closed-door briefing Thursday a group of Senators grilled Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge about whether they should clear their families out of the capital in anticipation of an attack. Ridge counseled them against it, but when pressed by the Senators for the odds of an attack...
...million cars--meaning the death rate for SUVs was slightly higher. Why? There are several reasons, but in blunt comments last month, Dr. Jeffrey Runge, the NHTSA administrator, highlighted the most important: partly because of their high center of gravity--a feature drivers love--SUVs are prone to tip over. Rollovers account for more than half of SUV fatalities, Runge said...
...then asked me what he was doing wrong to get my number and how he could better “spit his game” next time. In essence, he was looking for constructive criticism. I handed him his jalapeño poppers and told him a bigger tip might be a good start...
Fitzgerald’s background couldn’t have hurt his chances at getting into Harvard, although his acceptances at nine other colleges suggest he probably didn’t need the tip factor. He was never particularly Harvard-focused: he hadn’t spent a significant amount of time on campus before he showed up for the First-year Outdoor Program, and his family never pressured him to go. “My family wanted me to go to a good college, a respectable place,” he says. “They didn?...
...When I originally threw it out in front I was hoping to hit Kalen for the tip, but it was a little too close to the net,” Corriero said. “So it ended up going in—I was happy with that...