Milestones May 20, 2002

SENTENCED. ROBERT HANSSEN, 58, ex-FBI counterintelligence expert who pleaded guilty, in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, to providing thousands of classified U.S. intelligence documents to the Russians; to life in prison with no possibility of parole; in a federal court in Alexandria, Va. Believed to be one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history, Hanssen said: "I apologize for my behavior. I am shamed by it."

DIED. SEATTLE SLEW, 28, champion racehorse and the last surviving one to win the Triple Crown; 25 years to the day after his 1977 victory at the Kentucky Derby, which was followed that...

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