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Hendricks (0-1) received the loss after giving up three runs in the eighth. Greeted with a triple to start the inning, Hendricks gave up two more singles and hit a batter, departing with the score...
...region for just that purpose. Bowing to a crucial Israeli demand, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had his forces arrest the fifth and final suspect in the October killing of an Israeli Cabinet minister. And Sharon made his own concession. He did not take back his threat to "batter" the Palestinians--though he claimed to have meant not Palestinians generally but terrorists--but he said he was dropping his insistence on a week free of Palestinian attacks before Israel would discuss a cease-fire. "Negotiations to stop the shooting will be [held] under fire," he said...
...evening of eating. (When flying to Taipei, don't bother touching a morsel on the plane.) We head to Liaoning Street in northeast Taipei where vendors famous for their seafood concoctions line the crowded alley. Xiao Gugu waves us over to a woman who is ladling taro batter onto a round grill. We watch as she nonchalantly cracks two eggs over the clear taro and smooths the mixture into a perfect circle. She then sprinkles plump oysters over the omelette and folds it all together. Served with a sweet and spicy sauce, one uhwajian, as the oyster dish is called...
...series modeled on Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (Alan Dershowitz has penned a Letters to a Young Lawyer) Hitchens dispenses advice on how to batter away at the prevailing hypocrisies of our day by living in a state—or rather, an activity—of principled opposition. Luckily, Hitchens has at least enough of a sense of humor to appreciate the condescending silliness that encircles this idea. “I myself hope to live long enough to graduate, from being a ‘bad boy?...
...also says something about the vast world of baseball rules. The batter never swung at the pitch, and the ball never made it to the catcher. It wasn’t a wild pitch or a passed ball because, well, the pitch wasn’t really wild and the ball never really passed. So what kind of call should the umpire make in this situation...