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...Only one team—Cornell—had found a way to shut down Dawson, holding him to under 100 yards two weeks ago for the first time in 10 games...
...mentality.” So what was on the senator’s mind before September 2001? As a member of the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations (which he chaired in the 1990s), Kerry lead investigations that exposed and shut down international financial networks that gave a lifeline to terrorists. In 1988, Senator Kerry authored and passed legislation that forced foreign governments to crack down on these networks or lose access to U.S. markets. In his 1997 book, “The New War,”Kerry argued that international terrorist and criminal networks were...
...blockers did a good job of tracking the setter,” Weiss added. “Our goal was to shut down the outside hitters, and we did that...
...make it to work one day, sending the producer, the director and assorted crew members into crisis mode. Should they try to rouse her and see if they can struggle through another day? Give her a week off to see whether she can pull herself together? Or simply shut down the picture, dealing what could be a fatal blow to her film career...
When Senator Mark Dayton shut down his Washington office last week, ostensibly out of concern for his staff's safety, many on Capitol Hill wondered if the Minnesota Democrat knew something everyone else didn't. The answer, it turns out, is far from it. Dayton last month received the same briefing as his fellow Senators about a CIA worst-case scenario involving simultaneous terrorist attacks across the country. Yet he apparently took the hypothetical threat as an imminent one. "Most people who heard the briefing," sniffs an intelligence official, "understood the context. It was theoretical...