Word: armed
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...CGARY GULLER First with one arm...
Martinez survived a slightly scary moment in his last inning of work. With two on and one out, Harvard sophomore first baseman Trey Hendricks lined a shot back up the middle that hit Martinez on his left arm. The Eagles pitcher picked up the ball in time to get Hendricks at first and—after a visit from the team’s trainer—got freshman catcher Schuyler Mann to pop out to end the inning...
Princeton turned to a fresh arm in Wendy Bingham to close out the game, while Harvard matched with freshman Cecily Gordon. Bingham nearly escaped by forcing Gordon into a 1-2-3 double play, but Gordon beat the catcher’s throw to first, keeping the inning alive for Whitton...
...strap bombs to teenaged bellies would see America defeated too. Those Palestinian crowds cheering on Sept. 11 were no coincidence. Suicide bombers were blowing apart Tel Aviv, Netanya and Jerusalem long before Mohammed Atta learned to fly commercial jets. Make no mistake: if we permit terrorists to strong-arm political concessions in Israel, we shall suffer atrocities that make the spectacle of skyscrapers falling in a plume of smoke look like the product of a child’s tantrum...
...policy backfired last week, when violence spiraled dangerously out of control and threatened U.S. interests throughout the region. It quickly became clear, also, that Sharon viewed the Palestinian Authority itself as part of the "infrastructure of terror" that he planned to destroy, which would leave behind no Palestinian security arm capable of policing a cease-fire and therefore result in de facto Israeli reoccupation of the West Bank towns - an eventuality for which the Bush administration would have paid a heavy, and long-term diplomatic price. And so, a week ago, President Bush found himself forced to change course...