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...everyone has bent his or her life around the danger. Bill Briggs, 56, has been driving a Yellow Transportation tractor-trailer for 14 years. On Oct. 4 he was five miles from home, listening to a cassette of blues guitarist Walter Trout, when he heard the boom, then felt glass shatter across his face. He pulled over and found a hole near the roof. When he jerked open the passenger-side door, a bullet fell to the ground. Briggs was back on the road 10 hours later. "The chances of getting shot at twice like that are like me hitting...
...puzzled by the insistence that there is a fully organized al-Qaeda--type organization behind the Muslim fanatics who are bent on purging the Middle East of Western influence. Why credit al-Qaeda for every fanatic's act? The facts are simple: there are many disenfranchised Muslim males who see the U.S., Britain and their allies as intruding on sacred Muslim ground. Those Muslims have a holy cause. They want Westerners out at all costs. There is no need for a terrorist, insurgent or al-Qaeda organization to direct the attacks when religious fanaticism is at work. KEN ALLISON Claremont...
...that game, Yadav took command. With both players fatigued, Yadav controlled the middle of the court and forced Fong to expend energy chasing down balls in the corners. Fong, visibly exhausted, often bent over or leaned against the back wall between points in order to catch his breath. Meanwhile, Yadav just got stronger as he closed in on victory, eventually taking the match with an impressive 9-0 win in the fifth game...
...thousands who have supported Moore, picketed and protested and prayed for him, it is his willingness to force the issue that sets him apart. "I believe history will look favorably upon Judge Roy Moore for resisting an ideology that is hell-bent on stripping every vestige of faith from the public square," predicts Gary Bauer, chairman of the Campaign for Working Families. "If the people of California could recall Gray Davis over blackouts and car taxes, men and women of faith should do no less in defense of the Ten Commandments, the Pledge of Allegiance and the sanctity of traditional...
...distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." Is it memory that makes possible the magic of Garcia Marquez's magic realism? A world retrieved from the past operates by more flexible guidelines; the laws of gravity are loosened, the rules of cause and effect can be bent...