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...three-person Harvard team took eighth place in the 1999 World Finals of a prestigious programming contest held yesterday in the Netherlands...
Back in the mid-'60s, my dad took me to Joe's restaurant in San Francisco. Somehow Dad sneaked away and asked DiMaggio if he'd come talk to me. I will never forget that moment when Joltin' Joe sat down with a 10-year-old ballplayer to talk about baseball and give me his autograph. This middle-aged man is still deeply touched that the great Joe DiMaggio would take that time with me, and no doubt thousands of other young men. To me, that will always be the measure of his greatness. GARY DEWITT Tahoe Vista, Calif...
SWORN IN. LUIS GONZALEZ MACCHI, 52, former Paraguayan pro-basketball player and Senate president; as President of Paraguay; in Asuncion. Macchi took over for impeached President Raul Cubas...
...Serbian twilight, they took us to see Slobodan Milosevic in his presidential residence. He had reddish, piggy eyes set in a big round head. He wore a brush cut that looked like static electricity firing up from his pink skull. Milosevic settled complacently onto a sofa, with Wiesel on his right, and cocked one leg onto the cushion, showing an expanse of hairless, pale calf above his black sock...
...YORK: The papers of record didn't go home empty-handed at this year's Pulitzer prizes: The New York Times took home a pair, one for columnist Maureen Dowd's cranky Clinton-Lewinsky columns and another for Jeff Gerth's chronicling of the China satellite flap. The Wall Street Journal netted two as well, one for International Reporting (the Russian financial meltdown) and one for Feature Writing. And the Washington Post took home the Public Service award for "Deadly Force," about reckless gunplay by D.C. police officers. For photography, it was an historic but not-too-surprising sweep...