Word: batterer
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...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...
...journalist attacking Dershowitz for his “nearly pathological need to have the last word,” Dershowitz responded in his typical combative approach, which has been described as “intellectual flying kicks and sharp elbows that batter any adversary into submission...
Boston ended up losing the game, with the next batter grounded out. Mussina, however, was far from happy with his one-hit shutout. Afterwards, the left-hander admitted to being very disappointed and mused that “it just wasn’t meant...