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...remember Mister Rogers as being as warm, fuzzy and innocuous as a cardigan sweater, then you did not really know Mister Rogers. It is true that Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which lives on in reruns, was an island of tranquillity in a children's mediasphere of robots and antic sponges. And in real life, Fred Rogers, who died last week of stomach cancer at age 74, was evidently as sweet and mild mannered as the kindly neighbor he played on TV. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he didn't smoke, drink or eat meat, prayed every day and went...
...stayed on the bench for another year and a half. Only after Japan surprised the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, killing 2,433 Americans, did the country put aside its isolationism. More defeats followed at first, but after an improbable victory near the Pacific island of Midway on June 4, 1942, the U.S. began to push Japan back. Two years later, on June 6, 1944, the world's largest amphibious invasion, on the shores of Normandy, did the same to the Germans. But no matter who was winning the war, humanity was losing...
...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team began its drive to reclaim the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championship (EISL) with a strong performance yesterday, leading the 10-team field after the first day’s six events at the Nassau County Aquatics Center on Long Island. The Crimson captured two individual swimming events and the one-meter diving competition, while defending-champion Princeton placed first in both the relay events and the 50-yard freestyle. Each of the five non-diving victories set a new EISL Championship meet record...
...Israeli attack helicopters. Meanwhile, under Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new Cabinet, which includes groups that support the settlement movement, Israeli troops seized part of the Gaza Strip to create a "security zone." Killer Blast THE PHILIPPINES A bomb that exploded at Davao City airport in the southern island of Mindanao killed 21 people, including an American missionary. Authorities said that one of the dead was a member of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), who they believed was carrying the bomb, which exploded prematurely. The MILF, the country's biggest Muslim rebel group, denied responsibility...
...other cities came forward to say the band--on a nationwide tour to support a new greatest-hits album--did not consult with them before setting off fireworks during recent performances. Other clubs on Great White's tour said the band did seek permission but was turned down. Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri said Great White "used bad judgment" in shooting off the flaming fountains. "I would say that using pyrotechnics inside that building, you were asking for trouble," he said...