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...offers a taste of post-season baseball during the day - although this year there will be only two late afternoon starts for the ALCS, and one for the NLCS.) While traveling back to New York, the Mets commemorated their National League title by getting wasted, starting a massive food fight and completely trashing the plane...
...Fight to End Maternal Deaths Thanks to Vivienne Walt for the thought-provoking article on maternal mortality in Freetown and the whole developing world [Sept. 29]. This issue is a priority for our people, and we will be committed to staying the course until we see results. But governments definitely have a central role, and citizens around the world need to bring this to their attention. Keep up the good work! Rashid Abdulai, Freetown, Sierra Leone...
...Sept. 17-18, according to an Australian Defence Force spokesman, a special forces patrol was moving to "conduct a planned activity" when it was fired on. The Australians "fired back in self-defense." The ADF spokesman says "a number of groups" including Afghan police were involved in the fight, which left three Afghans dead. He says the Australians appear to have followed their rules of engagement, and their actions were "appropriate and proportionate in what was a complex and lethal environment...
...physical and verbal tics that made him look his age, including a heavy reliance on his "my friends" crutch, and seemed nervously well aware of the high stakes. Without a solid win, he did not make up as much ground as he needed to, but lives to fight on. Overall grade...
...Despite the fact that Kryzan is spending a lot of her energy making up this financial deficit, the tough primary fight was to her advantage. She was the dark horse against two other Democrats - an Iraq war veteran who had the backing of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and a millionaire who'd previously run against the district's retiring Congressman, Republican Tom Reynolds. After Kryzan's opponents fired off a series of nasty television attacks ads, she produced a brilliantly effective one showing two men engaged in a brawl near a park bench. In the ad, Kryzan appears...