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...worthwhile to have a postmortem on one moment of notable idiocy that occurred early on, when the Yankee pitcher, Roger Clemens, delivered a pitch that shattered Mike Piazza's bat, the broken barrel of which came flying out toward the mound to be fielded by Clemens. Clemens caught the jagged piece of bat and threw it toward the first base line...
...tired of the Yankees winning the World Series. I know they're awfully good, but it's not very exciting for the rest of us when one team keeps hogging the spotlight. The Yankees have too much money - not that the Mets are exactly scraping the bottom of the barrel, but the Yanks have this aura of wealth that I find unispiring. If I had my way, there'd be a moratorium on World Series until the year when two economically struggling teams clawed their way up to the championship. The Pirates, for example, and maybe the Minnesota Twins...
Harvard Square is not a homogenous place, Levitan says. Crate and Barrel's concrete and glass structure, Gnomon Copy's art-deco facade and the Lampoon's playful brick building all have equal place in the square, he says...
...much for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Those oil-price reductions were wiped out as November crude touched $37 (right near the September 10-year high) during the session and settled at $35.50 a barrel, and heating oil prices have hit new highs again. So much for the NASDAQ's signs of life Wednesday afternoon; the tech index started the day up but got swept into a 93-point slide as visions of the '70s danced in investor's heads...
...high as that of the nearest of its 22 competitors. The acquisition certainly turned Occidental around, instantly trebling its U.S. oil reserves and helping to almost double its profits last year. Whereas it had been estimated that pumping Elk Hills oil would cost in the region of $4.50 a barrel, it actually gushed through at $1.50 a barrel...