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Defensively, the name of the game is experience. The Crimson have several returning pitchers competing for a spot on the starting rotation. The pitching staff is led by co-team pitchers-of-the-year junior Chip Harris and senior Michael Cicero...
...fullback as their spokesman. Within minutes, requests for help from contestants start flooding in. Every Bears fan in Greater Chicago is trying to calculate the volume of Soldier Field. They're all doing it wrong; and even the ones who are doing it right are probably using the faulty chip in their set-top box. I'm in deep conflict-of-interest territory here, wanting to reach out with Raster's stubby, white-gloved, three-fingered hand and slap some sense into these people...
...sort of expected to feel triumphant at this point, but I don't. So I let him off the hook. ``I just came from your accounting firm,'' I say. ``I told them I had discovered an error in my calculations -- that my set-top box had a faulty chip. I supplied them with 27 new numbers, which I worked out by hand, with pencil and paper, in a conference room in their offices, far from the prying eye of the cable company. I personally sealed them in an envelope and placed them in their vault...
...barrier for the first time, as the stock and bond markets leapt to record highs on Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's promise Wednesday to contain or even reduce interest rates. After surging past the mark in brisk early trading, and rising as much as 48 points, the blue chip barometer closed at 4003.33 (up 30.28 points). Some Wall Street analysts are now predicting that the Dow could break 4500 before year's end. The rally began yesterday after Greenspan told Congress that the central bank might hold interest rates steady - or cut them - as the economy cools down, and continued...
...wrapped up his case today by telling the jury that survivors of the massacre conspired with police to implicate him. Colin Ferguson''s closing argument came after the judge refused to permit testimony from a defense witness who allegedly told the prosecutor that authorities used a remote-controlled computer chip in the 37-year-old defendant''s brain to manipulate his behavior. Charged with shooting 25 people on a crowded train in 1993, Ferguson ? who is black ? simultaneously has claimed his gun was stolen by a white man who went on a rampage, that the killer...