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In 1968 Michael Warren was an All-American basketball player in an outstanding Bruins team. The, for me, he became the moral heart soul of the tv series Hill Street Blues with his almost constant decency and tolerance playing Officer Bobby Hill. Now, in Australia, another black man named Bobby Hill, of Collingwood. Football Club, is thrilling sports loving people with his dash and class. Last night, in Melbourne, Australia, Aussie Rules footballer Bobby Hill's goal kicking has been a crucial factor in a postseason finals triumph for his team. God Bless Bobby Hill Now And Then

When you are an old man in modern Western Society, the default position is for too many young people, especially young women, to treat you as a stupid, patriarchal and probably criminal piece of shit. Yesterday the opposite thing happened for me. It happened through perhaps the last bastion of freedom in Australia, the home grown game of sport of Australian Rules Football. I am a lifelong Collingwood supporter. The team is also known as the Magpies. My dad took me to all the games when I was a kid. In 1969 and 1970, as a young teenager, I had...

Report: Links Between Sept. 11 Hijacker, Anthrax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida doctor who treated one of the alleged Sept. 11 hijackers last June for a dark lesion on his leg said after reviewing his notes weeks after the attack that the lesion was consistent with anthrax, The New York Times reported on Saturday. The newspaper said a new memorandum prepared by experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Biodefense Strategies about Dr. Christos Tsonas' assertion had renewed debate about a possible link between the hijackers and anthrax-laced letters that killed five people in the United States in October...

Outside View: FBI Behind the Anthrax Curve Posted March 15, 2004 By Lawrence Sellin On Feb. 23, the Washington Times reported the FBI official in charge of the probe into the 2001 anthrax mailings said the investigation still has top priority among the bureau's unsolved cases but acknowledged the anthrax sender may never be caught. "Despite our very, very, very best efforts, we still might not be able to bring it home," said Assistant Director Michael A. Mason, who heads the FBI's Washington field office investigating the case. This is in stark contrast to the Nov. 17, 2001 comments of...