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...Near the end of a brilliant career, at age 38 Bonds is widely regarded as the best hitter in the game today - perhaps the best ever. He is also a riddle wrapped in a cocoon of handlers and protected by a bulky "Barry Bonds" elbow pad. He is famously disliked, by sportswriters, certainly (Rick Reilly, for one, wrote an unkind, and unfair, piece about Bonds in Sports Illustrated last year), and by at least some of his teammates. One in Pittsburgh, where he played his first seven years, famously said he would "rather lose without Barry than win with...
...most alarming thing about this job crunch is that, once squeezed out of the ranks of the employed, many of the jobless can't seem to elbow back in. The number of Americans unemployed for six or more months hit 1.6 million last month, up 93% from a year ago. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were created during many months in the '90s, but the job market shrunk by 43,000 jobs in September. Professionals and other elite workers--who tend to be older, better educated and highly trained--find themselves fighting for a shrinking pool of high-paying jobs...
Further worsening the situation for Harvard, freshman Melissa Anderson will be forced to sit out the tournament with tendinitis in her elbow...
...megged one kid and passed it off,” Ara said. “Then the ball got played back to me, and he hit me in the face with an elbow, but the ref didn’t see it. Then the [Quidachay-Swan] knocked me down with his elbow and got the red card...
Rose’s cranium has now joined his back and Ryan Fitzpatrick’s elbow as areas of concern among Harvard signal-callers...