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...good turnaround after some tough matches," sophomore sabre Ted Afield said...
...should have done a lot better," Baez said. "We had a few injuries like Ted Afield. He was a loss for the sabre team...
Despite having bank accounts that have ranged as far afield as Hong Kong, in the past few years Josa Santacruz Londono has rarely ventured outside Cali, Colombia's cocaine capital. In recent weeks, though, word leaked that the reputed mastermind behind the world's No. 1 drug cartel had fled to Bogota, flushed from cover by an elite government strike force that had been chasing him for months. Santacruz is sometimes called "El Gordo" -- the Fat One -- and knowing he likes to eat, General Rosso Josa Serrano Cadena, chief of the Colombian National Police, ordered his men to stake...
...line of Expo stores, which will cater to customers building new houses. The company has already hired armies of carpenters, electricians and other craftsmen to take the angst out of shopping as the do-it-yourself chain has expanded to more than 300 outlets. Home Depot went farther afield to hire Larry Wells, 43, who lost his $60,000-a-year job as an Eastern Airlines pilot when that carrier went out of business in 1991. A do-it-yourself remodeler, Wells started as a floor salesperson in Atlanta for less than a third of his pilot's salary...
...similar air of caution. Is the door half open or half closed? Her apprehension is understandable, given the subject she has written about: her two-year stay as a teenager on a ward for girls at McLean, a private psychiatric hospital outside Boston. Kaysen wrote two novels, Far Afield and Asa, as I Knew Him, before she began her literary journey back to McLean. In fact, she spent more than 20 years avoiding the topic. "I never discussed it. I didn't know what to say," she recalls. If she did bring it up, "it was a good...