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With one run in on the wild pitch and runnerson second and third, Kalyvas gave way to Lennon,who inherited a two-strike count on sophomorefirst baseman Mike Kahney...
...throughout the game, whenever Pedro ran the count to two strikes, twenty thousand voices chanted ponchalo, ponchalo Pedro, nineteen thousand of us mispronouncing the words. The fans holding the ubiquitous red, white and blue Dominican flags which vendors sold on Yawkey Way before the game were not exclusively Dominicans, either: a good deal, perhaps a majority of them, were white...
...wing of the Irish Republican Army, which for years has been fighting for a united Ireland, proclaiming BRITS OUT NOW--signed a document that says that the political status of the province could be changed only by a majority vote of the people of the North. By anyone's count, that would delay a united Ireland for at least a generation, perhaps two. Why this change of heart? Why did politicians with records of spectacular intransigence finally agree to compromise...
Moore challenges statistics that show rising employment rates by asserting that many of the new jobs created pay minimum wage and do not allow individuals to support their families or themselves. He also says that more Americans need to work two jobs and that these people count as two individuals in employment statistics...
McLaughlin is somewhat of a Surge connoisseur herself. "I drink about one a day. But the count goes up when I run out of Mountain Dew. Then it's three or four times a day." By way of explanation, she offers, "I guess I like lemon-lime caffeine things." Gomez-Trochez also consumes the beverage on a fairly regular, though less frequent schedule. "Every time I have to pull an all-nighter or orgo problem set...so one every two weeks on average." And as for the side-effects McLaughlin describes? Gomez-Trochez only notices that he is "peeing...