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...days after Sept. 11, doomsday scenarios like a nuclear attack on Manhattan suddenly seemed plausible. But during the six months that followed, as the U.S. struck back and the anthrax scare petered out and the fires at Ground Zero finally died down, the national nightmare about another calamitous terrorist strike went away...
...worldwide dragnet has snared 600 alleged al-Qaeda operatives. And yet the bottom line is sobering: after six months of gumshoe work by just about every law-enforcement official in the U.S., the number of al-Qaeda sleeper cells that have been busted inside the country is precisely zero. Does that mean bin Laden's men have gone further underground? "We don't know," says an FBI official. "If you go back and look at the hijackers, they had zero contact with any known al-Qaeda people we were looking at. They didn't break laws. They didn...
...recent days, the chances that the Crimson would play a nearby opponent fell to nearly zero, with neither Boston College nor Notre Dame pulling off sufficiently impressive performances in the Big East tournament. The first two rounds of the tournament are played at the home arena of the minibracket’s highest seed...
...There's just one jury still out - the consumers. The stalwart American shopper led the economy (and particularly GM) back from the Sept. 11 depths by coming out for all the post-terrorism sales and buying zero-interest cars by the truckload, and then kept it going relatively strong throughout the winter. Now it's spring, time for businesses who spent all winter burning off inventories - a record $120 billion in the fourth quarter alone - to make new stuff for consumers...
...Greater Boston, His Eminence Cardinal Bernard F. Law last week stripped Rev. D. George Spagnolia of his ability to exercise priestly ministry and revoked his monthly stipend of $1,400. The cardinal claims that this action was justified by the Archdiocese’s new “zero-tolerance” policy for alleged molesters, which was developed as a response to scandals over the past months that have uncovered hundreds of potential victims. As a result of the Cardinal’s swift-handed “responsiveness,” Rev. Spagnolia can no longer live...