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...some reason, the oil companies set their headquarters in Midland, giving the town a white-collar image, while the field hands clung to Odessa, lending it a blue-collar air. When high school football came along (to continue our ton of history in a thimble), it meant that every Thanks-giving the bosses' sons played the sons of the laborers. Through the years things changed--both towns now sport enough alabaster shirts to have a lot of ring around the collar in the summertime--but the deep and abiding rivalry over high school football remained white...
...occupied only by women. I suppose they did this because I was a child. Some of the women were with babies. Some of the women were half naked. Some showed no external wounds, but they had gone crazy from the bombing or from being parted from their families. They clung to the legs of the soldiers, imploring them, 'Where are my children?' The younger women, distraught, began climbing the tent poles, crying, 'Mother! Mother!' I could not sleep that night, or the next day, or even the next. The women cried for two days, but on the third, they were...
...grip of many incumbent operators across the Continent. Industrial customers, in theory, have the right to choose their supplier, and by 2007 all consumers should be able to do the same. But in reality, some state-backed energy companies like Italy's Eni and France's EdF have steadfastly clung to their dominant market position. Urging the Commission to act is Britain, which has led the way on liberalizing its energy markets but claims it is falling victim to price fixing and is routinely denied access to the pipelines and grids it needs. And although 10 member states...
...rock is one that celebrates and explores the ironies of musical history—not surprising for a decade lit off by the perverse cheerleaders of “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” The guitar-rock that Oasis so convincingly emulates frequently clung to a set of themes about pastoral English life, reflected in such songs as the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” or “Penny Lane,” and the Kink’s magnum opus The Village Green Preservation Society...
...fifth and final frame, the Crimson started strong and clung to a small lead until Vassar closed the gap, tying the game at 13 on two sequential wide kills by Harvard...