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...Sitting in right field at PacBell Park at the moment Barry Bonds comes up to bat. This is a great summer to cheer on the Giants slugger - just keep your eyes open and your glove at the ready...
...undoubtedly "Strangelove." Kubrick retained his services to turn the movie's source-material, a rather starkly serious novel, into the "nightmare comedy" that set the standard for black humor in the '60s. Southern's warped sensibility is stamped throughout the film - especially in sequences like the one where Col. "Bat" Guano ("if that is indeed your name") suspects Group Captain Mandrake of committing "preversions" in a phone booth. The other title invariably connected with Southern's name, "Easy Rider," demonstrates his mastery at delineating characters through dialogue - as in the memorable campfire scene where "straight" lawyer George Hanson (Jack Nicholson...
...knifed and killed a seven-year-old boy on a school playground. Last August a 15-year-old newspaper-delivery boy stabbed six sleeping neighbors, killing three of them. In December a 17-year-old boy went berserk in Tokyo's Shibuya district, injuring eight strangers with a baseball bat...
...knifed to death a 7-year-old boy on a school playground. Last August a 15-year-old newspaper delivery boy stabbed six sleeping neighbors, killing three of them. Last December a 17-year-old boy went berserk in Tokyo's Shibuya district, assaulting seven strangers with a baseball bat. "These children are at their cutest, sweetest age," Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said after Friday's massacre. "How can we deal with the fact that our safe society is beginning to collapse...
...spring training various scouts, coaches, managers and players took one look at Ichiro's 1.75-m, 73-kg frame and his open stance, and thought the same thing: inside heat. But Ichiro, a quick-wristed, fast-out-of-the-box slap hitter with excellent bat control, will not be bullied. In a recent Mariners' victory against the defending champion Yankees, ace right-hander Roger Clemens threw a wicked 150 km/h splitter that broke near Ichiro's knees. No matter. Ichiro grazed the ball with the tip of his bat, sending it rolling down the third-base line for a double...