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Still, such a significant showing by a freshman is rare. Hoff will certainly be of vital importance as the Crimson takes on Holy Cross this afternoon and No. 20 Brown on Saturday. Yet the strength the Crimson demonstrated both mentally and physically against Cornell gives it confidence against these two foes...
...friendly display of competitiveness, the United States and Korean National Teams faced off in a “Good Will Game” midway through the tournament. Men and women from each team fought same-sex opponents on two large, brightly-colored foam mats, winning points by striking vital areas such as the chest and—for older fighters—head...
...felony, but revealing the name of a CIA officer is. It was the President's father, a former spy chief, who called it treason to leak the name of an undercover officer. And in this case, the officer was one who was working on the most vital security issue of all, the proliferation of WMD. At a time when good intelligence and successful spying has never been more essential to the nation's defense, the deliberate unmasking of a spy sent shudders through the secret web of spooks worldwide. When a U.S. operative is unmasked, foreign spy agencies go back...
...probes a year, of which 20 to 25 result in investigations. Almost all of these are closed without a suspect being named, much less a prosecution being sought. Since the results tend to be inconclusive, FBI and Justice Department officials often deride the exercise as a distraction from more vital antiterrorism and counterintelligence work. Some FBI agents say they resent investigating and intimidating other government employees. Former Attorney General Janet Reno summed up the prevailing view when she told Congress in 2000, "Criminal prosecution is not the most effective way to address the leak problem...
...like Union Oil Co. of California (Unocal), redoubled their efforts to bring plants online. Unocal started construction of a mine and processing plant near Parachute, Colo., in 1980 and predicted that it would produce 50,000 bbl. of oil a day by the late 1980s. Calling the Unocal project vital to the nation's energy supplies and national security, chairman Fred L. Hartley described it as a "solid economic proposition...