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...tough. Especially considering [on] Saturday and Sunday, the bats swung well enough to win.” The team’s pitching jitters evidently showed themselves in the team’s inability to master the changeup. “You can’t choke it; you can’t overthrow,” Haviland says. In the end, the Crimson was too “pumped up.” “We need to get relaxed, get more comfortable,” Cole says. “We’re going...
...admitting last year, according to the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, to a "five-year affair with a 29-year-old Maryland woman, but denies repeatedly beating her." At one point, the woman locked herself in the Congressman's bathroom and called 911, claiming that he was trying to choke her. Sherwood said he was just giving her a back rub. The woman brought suit, and Sherwood settled out of court. A former teacher named Kathy Scott last week announced she would challenge Sherwood in the Republican primary because he "is not living his personal life in a way that...
...have a port at the Southern part of the country.” Referring to suggestions that below-sea-level portions of New Orleans might not be worth rebuilding, Carville said, “When I hear the stupidity, I just wanna jump somebody and literally choke them.” Katrina was the sore spot, but Mardi Gras was the happy ending—before leaving, the celebrity duo shot beads into the audience...
...minuscule, and had evaporated by mid-day Wednesday. Inversion is inversion, and this unwholesome circumstance has occurred before every recession in the last 40 years. The logic is simple. Bond traders push long-term yields unusually low when they feel that short-term rates are unusually high and will choke off business borrowing and crush the economy...
...that it reveals differences between the old al-Qaeda leaders and al-Zarqawi over tactics and ideology. At the same time, the letter also indicates an acknowledgment by al-Zawahiri that the al-Qaeda hierarchy has been reordered. "It wasn't the letter of an overall commander pulling the choke chain of a subordinate," says Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert with the Rand Corp. think tank in Washington, who believes it is genuine. "It was diplomatic, cajoling, flattering and in essence sucking up to [al-Zarqawi...