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...adolescent I heard tales of the day when a great army of pitchers would return to claim the throne that is rightfully theirs, destroying the evil clan of sluggers that has stamped out the old balance of power and caused a dark cloud to be drawn over the National Pastime...
...possible contender for the 2008 Republican nomination for president presented his newest program for America—drawn largely from his book “Winning The Future: A 21st Century Contract with America”—but spent the large majority of his time fielding questions from an audience of both critics and supporters...
...report is one of 12 surveys put out by a team of undergraduates, IOP staff, and a professional polling company over the past five years. In the latest poll, the team conducted telephone interviews during March and April with 1,206 college students from across the nation, drawn randomly from a student database...
...world where China will play a much larger role," he said last month, in an address to Sydney's Lowy Institute for International Policy. "China's economic dynamism is something we feel palpably in this country." In the 1840s, thousands of Chinese indentured laborers and free settlers were drawn to a thriving colony. Today, 430,000 people, including merchant bankers, students, artists, gamblers and tourists, move between Australia and China each year; if Hong Kong is included, the figure almost doubles. China's rise is easing Australia's isolation, putting it close to one of the hubs of the world...
Although no one in the group sang, two members of the band occasionally interrupted the languid, drawn-out notes of the violin and base with readings of passages of Italo Calvino’s book, Invisible Cities. Perhaps too obscurely poetic to be fully grasped or even enjoyed, the band’s bizarre music, nevertheless, had a calming, almost hypnotic quality, which sadly was periodically obliterated by intentionally jarring outbursts of radio static. There is no need to say that the band continuously kept its audience guessing for what would come next...