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...hitchhiked from Iowa City, Iowa, to St. Louis, Missouri, for Game 1. I slept in the railroad station and bought a $3 standing-room ticket behind home plate. The Sox tied the game in the ninth, and Rudy York won it in the 10th with a blast to the last row of the bleachers?and I was the only one in the park yelling. I'm happy for today's Boston kids with their cell phones and painted faces. But most of them can't even remember 1986, let alone 1946. They have never known the character-building advantages...
...Thailand. In response, Buddhists are arming themselves?and not just in the villages. Every Sunday a Thai businessman drives his armor-plated car to a navy firing range outside Narathiwat town, where he and other local Buddhists practice how to shoot. While a bank manager and a bookshop owner blast away with sleek Italian-made shotguns, the businessman?who doesn't want to be named?takes out a Walther PPK pistol and deftly peppers a target with bullets. "Want to try?" he asks through wisps of choking cordite. "We are being victimized and killed every day. The government...
...them go in return for a government promise to release 24 Taliban from jail. Closing In INDONESIA Police arrested four suspects in the Sept. 9 bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta, which killed at least 10 people. Officials say the arrests could lead them to the blast's alleged mastermind, Malaysian Azahari bin Husin. Burning Question MEXICO Riot police arrested more than 30 people in connection with the murder of two undercover policemen, who were beaten and set on fire by a mob that suspected them of kidnapping children. A third officer was hospitalized in critical condition. Officials launched...
...warplane dropped a 500-lb. bomb on a weapons cache, it set off a daisy chain of roadside bombs for 100 yds. along either side of the block. Hoping to stymie any U.S. advance and herd troops into canalized killing zones, insurgents positioned dirt-filled barriers and concrete blast walls throughout the streets. The raw materials they were using had been supplied by the U.S.-led coalition to the Iraqi police and Iraqi National Guard in Fallujah, many of whose ranks have since joined the insurgency...
...through the desolate buildings bound for their first target--Objective Bud, identified as a congregating point for foreign fighters--the Wolf Pack started taking fire immediately. A Bradley vehicle piloted by Sergeant First Class James Cantrell shuddered and filled with dust as it ran over a roadside bomb. The blast was so powerful it was at first mistaken for a bomb dropped by one of the many warplanes screeching overhead. "Goddam," said Fitts, locked down inside the mechanical beast, his shotgun nestled under his chin...