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Strange Tentfellows Muammar Gaddafi was the Saddam Hussein of his day; America's Public Enemy No. 1. Ronald Reagan sent jets to bomb his compound in 1986 after Libyan agents blew up a Berlin disco popular with U.S. soldiers. Gaddafi's regime sold arms to the I.R.A., brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, killed an unarmed policewoman with a blast of machine gun fire from its London embassy, and still supports Robert Mugabe's despotism in Zimbabwe. So seeing Tony Blair shake Gaddafi's hand last week in a ceremonial tent near Tripoli was a head-snapping...
...controversy arose because an official blew his whistle prematurely and after Harvard's protests the officials called a timeout to review the play...
...never seen her play so well in competition,” Elias said of Hall. “She just blew Michelle off the court—came out early, kept her dug in the back the whole time...
...Crimson defenseman momentarily airborne and helpless. After her back hit the ice flat, Banfield’s head swung back and her helmet slammed into the ice at 6:12 in the first overtime. One twitch, and then she lay motionless. After Ruggiero stopped and turned, the official blew the whistle and a stifling silence blanketed the crowd at Union’s Achilles Arena...
Fifteen years ago, violinist Nigel Kennedy blew hot air up the skirts of the somewhat dowdy old lady that is classical music with his recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. He played sections fast, slow, ornamented. He played his own cadenzas. He had a punk’s hairstyle. He shot a music video in which the entire orchestra wore sunglasses during the “Summer” movement...