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...aftermath of Cremarosa’s injury, junior Rodney Byrnes, a WR/RB last season, immediately lost his “slash.” After posting 482 receiving yards and 226 rushing yards in 2002-—second- and third-best on the team, respectively—he will simply be a wideout this season...
...immediate aftermath of 9/11 few in the Muslim mainstream identified with the terror attacks. That much was obvious from the wave of denial that blamed the attacks on the Mossad or the CIA. The truth - that the callous murder of almost 3,000 civilians was carried out by 19 Arab men who considered themselves devout and pious Muslims carrying out a blessed act - was too horrific to swallow. Cowardly attacks on civilians elicited little pride in the Muslim world, and plenty of revulsion. That was why they had to be blamed on somebody else...
...Milch, the times felt right for the story. "In the aftermath of 9/11, people are so guarded emotionally, savaged by what they experienced through TV," he says. When fiction can't possibly trump the headlines, taking viewers out of a contemporary setting can help them check their disbelief at the door. Don't expect chaste, old-fashioned behavior, though; there's already buzz about the skin, violence and language. "I'm just trying to get that world right," says Milch, who helped bring nudity to prime time in NYPD Blue. "When a man was killed in Deadwood...
...month intervals, Matrix-style: Quicksilver drops in September, The Confusion in April 2004 and The System of the World in October 2004. But you'll wish it were longer. Its scope is galactically vast and encompasses the lives of noblemen, vagabonds and, above all, thinkers. Amid the still smoking aftermath of the Fire of London, the likes of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Liebniz (both major characters) are laying the foundations of modern science by hand, equation by equation. Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking and thrilling...
...aftermath of Trombly’s injuries, BPD witnesses told jurors of Byrne’s concerted efforts to keep them quiet about the abuse they’d seen as investigators turned up the heat...