Word: upsetness
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PENETRATING AL-QAEDA: Tenet's toughest moment came when Senator John Roberts said his constituents at a Dodge City, Kans., coffee shop wanted to know why John Walker Lindh could get into al-Qaeda but the CIA couldn't. Tenet, visibly upset, replied, "You better tell everybody at the cafe it's not true." Did he mean his agents had infiltrated al-Qaeda? A U.S. official told TIME that Tenet meant just that; the CIA does have a spy inside al-Qaeda--the first time the agency has ever acknowledged this. "We have our own unilateral sources," the official says...
...powerful one, when it is in mourning. At the opening ceremonies on Friday night, lots of countries carried the Stars and Stripes along with the flags of their own nations. When even the French are giving it up for the U.S.A., you know no one is going to get upset over starting the Games by displaying the tattered flag found at the World Trade Center and listening, one more time, to that one cop who can sing God Bless America. Or to George Bush's revving up the athletes by yelling "Let's roll...
...Howe Cup is an eight-team, single-elimination tournament. Last year, Harvard upset the top-ranked Bantams with a convincing 6-3 victory in the final. Two weeks ago, Trinity displaced the Crimson atop the national rankings with a riveting 5-4 triumph in Hartford, Conn. that came down to the final match...
Columbia had also just come off a big upset win against Penn the weekend before, while Harvard had to shrug off a loss to Yale at home. However, several players on both teams were battling the flu, and Columbia senior guard Derrick Mayo of the Lions was out with a broken foot...
...axis of evil” countries were obviously displeased with Bush’s speech, just as the Soviets were upset with Reagan’s. They are disturbed that an American president might take the initiative to free their people from vicious totalitarianism and restore their God-given human dignity...