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...probably got away from running the ball a little too much," Cowher concedes. So in the off-season, Pittsburgh signed Eagles running back Duce Staley to a five-year, $14 million contract. When injuries slowed Staley, Bettis, a 12-year veteran who was supposed to fade into the background, got his groove back. Bettis, known as the Bus for his ability to run over tacklers, rushed for 100 or more yards in each of his first six starts, climbing to fourth place on the all-time NFL list with more than 13,000 career yards. "It's quality of life...
...Blunkett had insisted there had been no intervention at all. (He later said he had forgotten the e-mail and fax.) Several missteps had steered him toward this patch of political quicksand. The public seemed willing to forgive his three-year affair with a married woman - his hardscrabble background, blindness and gift for straight talk bought him sympathy - but worried that his judgment had become skewed when he went to court to demand access to his lover's 2-year-old boy, who Blunkett says is his son. An authorized biography full of nasty remarks about his Cabinet colleagues...
...snide sentiment on these songs, as the backing music generally sounds fairly stock and not particularly tight, making one long for the whirring rockabilly of Moz’s Smiths partner Johnny Marr. Notable, though, is the way many of the songs benefit from a loudspeaker-like background, which blends well with his oh-so-affected singing...
Rain pours in the background, grim music plays and names flash across a dimly lit screen...
Frustratingly, George never takes a stand about the United States’ failure to react to the genocide. He only tacitly implies his discontent through a background image of Bill Clinton’s face on the cover of Time Magazine as “Man of the Year” and in the nonplussed voice of State Department spokeswoman Christine Shelly, broadcast over state radio...