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...Crimson, junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman once again led the team in the eight-kilometer Gold Race by finishing in 25:47.4, good enough for 169th place. Toward the end of the race, McLean-Foreman developed a cramp in his side and struggled through the last part of the race...
After ten minutes, my hands are frozen and my lips and eyes dry. I feel the pressure of one stiletto digging into my heel. Up on the concrete block, Grainne is fighting a cramp in her left toe and thinking how she would like to do a documentary on living statues. Angela, meanwhile, is singing “Christmas in Kilarney” both in her head and out loud and making herself as menacing as possible...
Lingman dominated Nieto for the second set, 6-2, and used that momentum to stake himself a 5-2 lead. Lingman had triple-match point at 5-4, but on his third chance, he began to cramp. He lost most of the movement in his wrist, and after he hit a high volley long, Nieto made a stunning comeback to win the match, 6-1, 2-6, 7-5, evening the overall score...
...bombings. "The arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed does make the role of Hambali in Southeast Asia much more important," says Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book about al-Qaeda in Asia. But Hambali is now clearly on the run and, according to a regional intelligence source, "that will cramp his style quite a bit." The last confirmed sighting of Hambali was in Bangkok in February 2002. Some say he's now in Java, Bangladesh, or Cambodia, where intelligence sources say he has a Cambodian Muslim wife...
...reform. But investors are divided over what needs to be done. The gentle, self-policing era that SEC chairman Harvey Pitt proclaimed last October is dead and gone, but even some battered investors don't trust grandstanding lawmakers to distinguish between reforms that are needed and those that will cramp the recovery even more. That was the argument Dick Cheney and others made to the President--that in the long run, Bush will suffer more if he gets a quick political boost from reforms that strangle the economy. While more Americans now see Big Business as a threat, polls show...