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...serve was not pretty. It’s tough to win when you double-fault three times. Summers was a force at the net, though, picking up any ball in his vicinity. The game went to deuce a few times, but we ended up losing. So it was 3-1 now. Larry did not seem happy. He really wanted to win, and I was obviously the reason we kept losing. I began trying desperately to send psychic signals to Ben and Kenyon, begging them to relent...
...were down 4-1. The only game we won was when Summers served. At this point, I was reconciled to the fact that me and Summers were going to go down in flames, and that it was all my fault. Weirdly, my attempts to telepathically make Ben and Kenyon go easy on us seemed only to embolden them. I just wanted to lose with dignity. I’m kind of ashamed to say it, but I was ready to give in to my own suckiness. Thing was, Larry wouldn?...
...score was 6-5, but Wasserstein was quote-serving-unquote. I assumed we were riding the double-fault train to tiebreaker country...
...slanted viewpoint presented in the television media is not only the fault of the reporters. Anthony Swofford, a Marine-turned-writer who served in the 1991 Gulf War reflected about his unit’s treatment of journalists. “Reporters visited my platoon and were treated to exactly what we’d been ordered to offer: smiling faces, bare, muscular chests and high levels of support for the coming war. We were ordered not to divulge our fears, our concerns about being uninformed about the long-term intentions of our mission...
...cannot fully fault them for this purchase, but if you look at their tax exemptions, I start to wonder if the legislature is not making a mistake granting tax exemption status to a institution that has a real estate division which is buying up property at a faster pace than I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” Tolman said...