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Identifying Deep Throat: 30 Years after Watergate

Thirty years ago today, the discovery of a piece of tape on a basement door in the capital-s Watergate complex resulted in the arrest of five men for breaking into the offices of the Democratic Party. The incident the White House dismissed as a -third rate burglary- brought down a president and added phrases like -stonewall,- -expletive deleted,- and -what did he know, and when did he know it?- to our language. It produced a host of political and campaign finance reforms and a craze for investigative journalism. We examine the political and journalistic legacy of Watergate with Nixon advisors, a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor who has enlisted his students in an investigation of the Deep Throat mystery, and White House counsel John Dean. Newsmaker: US Upsets Mexico in World Cup In South Korea, America-s soccer team is making sports history. After a disappointing loss to Poland, the US has defeated Mexico two-to-zero in its best showing since its first World Cup in 1930. Reporting for the San Diego Union-Tribune, Mark Zeigler credits America-s win to a major revamp in game strategy and looks ahead to the team-s chances against Germany in the quarter-finals. Reporter's Notebook: American Ground: Unbuilding the WTC For nine months, the world watched the recovery operation at Ground Zero, the site of New York-s former World Trade Center. William Langewiesche, of the Atlantic Monthly, describes -a wilderness of ruins,- with car-sized blocks of concrete hanging over workers who actually got to like it there. The Monthly has published the first of a 3-part series that will become a book, American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center.