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Gary Sonkur, the oft-injured senior cornerback, has returned from a shoulder injury and safety Ricky Williamson is nearing full strength after a bout with meningitis...
...Elsewhere, Winton can seem to tread water. Using Vic as a narrative thread for otherwise disparate stories, Damaged Goods and Reunion, in particular, feel padded out. And reading about the marital difficulties of Vic and Gail can be as interesting as a bout of unsuccessful whale watching, to which his characters are also prone. Otherwise, trimmed of its middle-aged spread, The Turning is as lissome as Winton's best prose...
...first time I listened to Wilco’s latest effort, A ghost is born, I couldn’t wrap my head around this latest bout of sonic curiosity. I was immediately turned off by drearily oblique opener “At Least That’s What You Said” and the whirring pomposity of “Less Than You Think.” But focusing on its quieter moments, I am pleased to find some of the higher songwriting peaks of Tweedy’s career, from the muted distress of “Wishful...
...Musharraf's deadly bout with al-Qaeda, the latest round has decisively been his. But a victory bell isn't expected soon. Bin Laden is still at large. "There is a perception that we have Osama hidden somewhere," the President said, "and we'll bring him out close to the American elections. We can't. We don't have any idea where Osama is." Al-Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, announced on a video released last week that holy warriors, or mujahedin, were winning the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pakistan has arrested more than 550 al-Qaeda...
...Olympic debut lasted just 1 min. 33 sec., but he didn't come out feeling like a loser. The 25-year-old judoist, the first from Niger ever to compete at the Games, crashed out in the first round of the 66-kg weight class, in a bout with Slovakia's Jozef Krnac that resembled a very fast two-man game of Twister. "Of course in my heart, it hurt to lose," Alassane says. But the point of this trip for Alassane - and for Olympic Solidarity (OS), the scholarship program that has given him more than $20,000 for training...