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...impatiently waiting to get through an army of cops and metal detectors and into the ballparks. The South Bronx was never more secure. No so the D-Backs, who threw journeyman pitcher Brian Anderson, who seemed like the red meat the Yankees had been craving. But they could only eke out a 2-1 win, riding the arms of their ace Roger Clemens and their late-inning lock, closer Mariano Rivera...
...middle child of three, he was the first member of his family to receive a university degree. Neither his father, an electrician, nor his mother had more than an eighth-grade education, though his mother later went back to school. Today Thompson sees his family's struggle to eke out a living as a source of personal strength. Among other things, that strength has helped inure him to the physical hardships--frostbite, altitude sickness, barely palatable food--that he routinely endures in the field...
...between references to James Brown and Babe, Shrek manages to eke out a slight plot. You see, Shrek is a gentle giant, contentedly living alone in the middle of the woods, going about his business, scaring away the occasional angry mob intent on slaying him-you know, the usual things ogres do. However, Shrek's happy, if lonely, life is disrupted when little Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) enlists the beast to track down Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), whom the monarch seeks to make his bride. Joining Shrek in this journey, due to the law mandated by Animation Codes and Regulations...
...think there is anything I could say or do that would convince Harvard's population of Baldwin clones that a George Bush presidency wouldn't be a nightmare of epic proportions. And maybe I don't need to--after all, it's quite possible that Gore will eke out a victory, and all their sleepless nights and travel reservations to Winnipeg and Brussels will have been for naught...
Toledo's newly-discovered serving prowess pushed the match to the edge. In the end however, the Crimson, led by freshman middle hitter Lauren Gallagher, made some big blocks to eke...