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To Serve, to Protect, to Brag You could see it coming. Minutes after the news flashed around the nation, FBI agents, active and retired, were preening themselves before the TV cameras, once again basking in the limelight of an arrest they had absolutely nothing to do with. Let this be said loud and clear before it becomes part of the self-created image of an agency that, like the Mounties, says it always gets its man: Eric Robert Rudolph was nabbed by a local cop on the beat. The FBI didn't have a damned thing to do with the capture of...

Operation Christmas Child Fact Sheet The World's Largest Children's Christmas Project of Kids-Helping-Kids WHATSome 7 million suffering children in more than 100 countries on six continents will receive personal, gift-filled shoe boxes through this kids-helping-kids project. For many of these children, the gift will be the first present they have ever received. WHEN Now through Christmas 2003... Kids, families, scout troops, schools, churches, civic clubs, and businesses are filling their shoe boxes now. Shoe box gifts can be dropped off at one of more than 1,300 drop sites located in all 50 states.To find the nearest location, call (800) 353-5949,...