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The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the Bears interviewed New England director of pro personnel Jason Licht today for their general manager opening. Licht was the first person Chicago has interviewed for the position. This is Licht's second stint with New England; he originally joined the organization in 1999 as a college scout, rising to assistant director of player personnel in 2002 before leaving in 2003 for Philadelphia, where he spent five years with the same title.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the Bears interviewed New England director of pro personnel Jason Licht today for their general manager opening. Licht was the first person Chicago has interviewed for the position. This is Licht's second stint with New England; he originally joined the organization in 1999 as a college scout, rising to assistant director of player personnel in 2002 before leaving in 2003 for Philadelphia, where he spent five years with the same title.

WASHINGTON — A gunman who fired shots at a Washington-area Marine Corps museum and who is believed to be responsible for three similar incidents may have a grievance against the Corps, the FBI said yesterday. John Perren, the acting assistant director for the FBI’s Washington field office, said investigators believe the person takes issue with the institution of the Marines, but not those in uniform. Authorities do not believe he wants to harm citizens or Marines, Perren said.

By Jessica Bartlett, Town Correspondent Braintree's Archbishop Williams High School has named Gordon McClay as the new Assistant Athletic Director, Archbishop officials announced late last week. McClay, a Plymouth resident, has been on the coaching staff at the school since 2007 as the Head Coach of Girls Varsity Lacrosse and Girls Varsity Soccer. He has also lead the Southeastern Coastal Bay State Girls' Lacrosse team since 2009, leading the team to a Bronze, Silver, and most recently Gold medal in the summer games.

LONDON — Roy Ward-Baker, the British director best known for “A Night to Remember,’’ the 1958 movie about the Titanic disaster, has died. He was 93. His son Nicholas Baker said the director died peacefully in his sleep at a London hospital on Tuesday. Mr. Ward-Baker started out in 1938 as an assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes’’ in London. After serving in the army during World War II, he went to Hollywood where he directed Marilyn Monroe in the 1952 movie feature “Don’t Bother to Knock.’’ He later...

Robert Altman, the iconoclastic director of groundbreaking films such as “M A S H,’’ “Nashville,’’ “Short Cuts,’’ and “The Player,’’ never met a Hollywood executive he trusted. Throughout his career, Altman (and his crews) maintained an “us against them’’ mentality about the studios who financed his films. Even in his younger days in television, director Altman pushed the boundaries with his trademark dark themes and rejection of linear storytelling. After a few run-ins with the sponsors of “Kraft Suspense Theatre’’ in the early 1960s, Altman...

WARWICK, R.I. — The spring flooding that swept through Rhode Island and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage should serve as a lesson for local and state government and residents to get ready for the next disaster, several officials said yesterday during a meeting of the state’s Emergency Management Advisory Council. “We need to use this event as an alarm that we need to prepare and prepare for much more,’’ said Paul Annarumo of the state Department of Transportation, which in April had to close Interstate 95 for the first time since the Blizzard of...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Red Sox manager Terry Francona thinks of it as "Animal House. " Sox clubhouse chief Tommy McLaughlin calls it "Phi Sign-a Playa. " It is the sprawling, eight-bedroom Cape Coral house where Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein and his minions have been living while they hatch a plan to win the 2004 World Series. It's where Moneyball meets Delta House, and it'll be empty in the next few days when the Sox break camp and fly north to start this season of great expectation.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Benedict K. Zobrist, who tracked down documents from hundreds of members of the Harry S. Truman administration as director of the late president's museum, died Thursday. He was 85. His death was confirmed by the Truman Presidential Museum & Library. The cause of death was not immediately known. Mr. Zobrist began leading the library in 1971, one year before the death of the nation's 33d president. He remained the director of the museum until 1994, when he retired.

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — At least one shot was fired early yesterday at a Coast Guard recruiting office in northern Virginia, police said, the fifth case of unexplained gunfire targeting military-related buildings in the Washington, D.C., area in the last several weeks. There were no injuries and only minor damage at the office’s strip-mall location, Prince William County police said. Police said the gunfire did not shatter the front glass. The FBI has blamed four previous shootings on a single assailant who they say could be harboring a...

LONDON — British filmmaker Peter Yates, who sent Steve McQueen screeching through the streets of San Francisco in a Ford Mustang in “Bullitt,’’ has died at age 81. Mr. Yates was nominated for four Academy Awards — two as director and two as producer — for the cycling tale “Breaking Away’’ and the backstage drama “The Dresser.’’ A graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Mr. Yates directed stage greats including...

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — At least one shot was fired early yesterday at a Coast Guard recruiting office in northern Virginia, police said, the fifth case of unexplained gunfire targeting military-related buildings in the Washington, D.C., area in the last several weeks. There were no injuries and only minor damage at the office’s strip-mall location, Prince William County police said. Police said the gunfire did not shatter the front glass. The FBI has blamed four previous shootings on a single assailant who they say could...

WASHINGTON — A gunman who fired shots at a Washington-area Marine Corps museum and who is believed to be responsible for three similar incidents may have a grievance against the Corps, the FBI said yesterday. John Perren, the acting assistant director for the FBI’s Washington field office, said investigators believe the person takes issue with the institution of the Marines, but not those in uniform. Authorities do not believe he wants to harm citizens or Marines, Perren said.

LONDON — Roy Ward-Baker, the British director best known for “A Night to Remember,’’ the 1958 movie about the Titanic disaster, has died. He was 93. His son Nicholas Baker said the director died peacefully in his sleep at a London hospital on Tuesday. Mr. Ward-Baker started out in 1938 as an assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes’’ in London. After serving in the army during World War II, he went to Hollywood where he directed Marilyn Monroe in the 1952 movie feature “Don’t Bother to Knock.’’ ...

WARWICK, R.I. — The spring flooding that swept through Rhode Island and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage should serve as a lesson for local and state government and residents to get ready for the next disaster, several officials said yesterday during a meeting of the state’s Emergency Management Advisory Council. “We need to use this event as an alarm that we need to prepare and prepare for much more,’’ said Paul Annarumo of the state Department of Transportation, which in April had to close Interstate 95 for the first time since the Blizzard of ’78.

Robert Altman, the iconoclastic director of groundbreaking films such as “M A S H,’’ “Nashville,’’ “Short Cuts,’’ and “The Player,’’ never met a Hollywood executive he trusted. Throughout his career, Altman (and his crews) maintained an “us against them’’ mentality about the studios who financed his films. Even in his younger days in television, director Altman pushed the boundaries with his trademark dark themes and rejection of linear storytelling. After a few run-ins with the sponsors of “Kraft Suspense Theatre’’ in the...

LONDON — British filmmaker Peter Yates, who sent Steve McQueen screeching through the streets of San Francisco in a Ford Mustang in “Bullitt,’’ has died at age 81. Mr. Yates was nominated for four Academy Awards — two as director and two as producer — for the cycling tale “Breaking Away’’ and the backstage drama “The Dresser.’’ A graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Mr. Yates directed stage greats including...

BEVERLY - You might be tempted to kick the red rubber playground ball that sits, dimpled and apparently deflating, in the middle of Antoniadis and Stone’s installation “Pass/Fail’’ in “Salt of the Earth’’ at the Montserrat College of Art Gallery. Don’t. The ball is made of cast plaster. Kick it, and you could break a toe. There’s an endearing humility to the ball and the 10-foot-tall brick pillar that stands nearby, topped with a block of concrete. Like the ball, the pillar is flawed.

BEVERLY - You might be tempted to kick the red rubber playground ball that sits, dimpled and apparently deflating, in the middle of Antoniadis and Stone’s installation “Pass/Fail’’ in “Salt of the Earth’’ at the Montserrat College of Art Gallery. Don’t. The ball is made of cast plaster. Kick it, and you could break a toe. There’s an endearing humility to the ball and the 10-foot-tall brick pillar that stands nearby, topped with a block of concrete. Like the ball, the pillar is flawed.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Benedict K. Zobrist, who tracked down documents from hundreds of members of the Harry S. Truman administration as director of the late president's museum, died Thursday. He was 85. His death was confirmed by the Truman Presidential Museum & Library. The cause of death was not immediately known. Mr. Zobrist began leading the library in 1971, one year before the death of the nation's 33d president. He remained the director of the museum until 1994, when he retired.