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...unspectacular as it might seem to most Americans, the Prudential Plaza building is a site of intense interest to Osama bin Laden and his operatives. Beginning in 2000, al-Qaeda operatives inside the U.S. conducted detailed surveillance of the Prudential building, with the apparent intent of destroying it and killing the civilians who work there. They took multiple photographs of the building and observed the parking garage underneath. One report outlined possible methods for carrying out an attack. Written in English, the report noted that it might be difficult to drive trucks or vans into the parking lot. Black limousines...
...another Mamet script. It looks a natural, but Stiles says it's anything but. "You have to really work to find the humanity of characters in films," she says, "because they're removed from the audience." Her breakout performance came the following year in the critically acclaimed (if commercially unspectacular) The Business of Strangers, playing a businesswoman who sets out to revenge herself on all men by - shades of Oleanna - accusing one of rape. Her malevolent turn earned Stiles comparisons with Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Stiles, raved the New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden, "brings a focused intelligence...
Where the Badgers have excellent team defense, the Buckeyes have overall consistency. Their netminder, Mike Betz, posted solid but unspectacular numbers throughout the season. Their team defense—which allows 2.5 goals per game—and penalty kill are highly rated, but not tops in the CCHA. Where Ohio State excels, according to Colgate coach Stan Moore, is along in their offensive productions—they have five players with 30 or more points—and along their forward lines...
...came back the next weekend to blank Vermont in the opening round of the ECAC playoffs. That marked the first time in 17 years that the Crimson had recorded back-to-back shutouts. And despite allowing three goals, including two late power play tallies, Grumet-Morris was solid, if unspectacular, in the series-clinching Game...
It’s just that right now, his team is the best of a very balanced, woefully unspectacular field—a title that everyone expected would belong to Harvard or Cornell this season...