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After the game Fitzpatrick couldn’t remember which touchdown was his favorite. It’s not as if it was an easy question. There was the 33 yard bullet to Edwards for the first score of the game. There were the two option flips to sophomore running back Ryan Tyler. There was his own one yard stroll into the endzone...
...About 10 women and children emerged from the building. Almost immediately, Kalashnikov fire erupted from several surrounding buildings, including the roof of a nearby school. The troops called for backup vehicles and returned fire but failed to quell the shooting. One soldier was hit in the back; the bullet went through his ceramic vest, ripping his shirt but failing to pierce the skin. The unit's bloodhound wasn't so lucky: it had to be evacuated after taking a bullet...
...opportunity in our mad dash to middle age. Hundreds of clubs proliferate into dozens of niches, each top-heavy with leaders and ambitious functionaries, many with titles as nebulous as the roles they play. Members are never far from some distinction that will pad their resumes, and when those bullet-points go up for grabs, gauntlets fall with a severity worthy of Karl Rove a week before elections...
...according to Microsoft. "This is more like your car being threatened by a new caliber bullet," says Mike Nash, the company's vice president for security. Still, a Bill Gates memo last year admitted Windows needed to be more "trustworthy." The company placed ads in national newspapers last week reminding users to turn on Windows XP's internal firewall and employ the operating system's automatic-update feature. That is, you can allow the company to fix its unintended mistakes constantly and quietly in the background. Windows XP does not ship with this feature turned on because...
...frontline remained a bitter zone. Rebels had come out to taunt the government soldiers, stripping naked to call them monkeys. Waves of civilians had tried to cross three times, only to be turned back by the fighters. On the far side, rebels drove up and down between looted, bullet-pocked shops, laughing and singing rude songs about Taylor. Celebratory shots rang from the streets. "There will be no fighting again,"? said Lahar Kiazulu, 21, his Klashnikov spray-painted white. "Because if he leaves the country, he is the only man we are fighting against." By then, the ex-president...