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...Columbia errors and its own hustle. Mager ran out a grounder to third and was rewarded when Steve Compton’s throw pulled first baseman Keith Palmieri off the bag. Hale knocked a pitch off Palmieri’s leg on the next at-bat and beat the flip to first. After senior Nick Carter hit into a fielder’s choice to give the Crimson first and third with one out, Mager raced home on a wild pitch...
...flip side of all this vigilance is an anesthetized sensibility. Some of our usually well-informed and politically passionate acquaintances have stopped reading newspapers and debating politics. Others respond to the news by assessing any given terror attack by the quantity of dead and injured. ("That one wasn't so bad; only three were killed.") A young mother we know has witnessed this kind of imperviousness in her two sons, ages 4 and 6, who cry, "Terror attack," and joyfully throw their toy cars into the air. There is a numbness too in Israeli attitudes toward the punishment inflicted upon...
...Vatican official said such exceptions to papal tradition are unprecedented. "They have someone else celebrate the Mass and then flip on [the Pope's] microphone for him to say certain magic words--it's an odd usage of the Roman rite," he told Time. "If you can't do the Mass, you can't do the Mass. And there's no sense he will be able to do it next year either...
Today, of course, you can't pick up a fashion magazine without seeing splashy liquor ads picturing women sipping themselves into various states of rapture. "Get in touch with your masculine side," instructs a recent Jim Beam ad, which depicts a woman puffing on a cigar. Flip on an episode of Sex and the City, and you are likely to catch Carrie Bradshaw and her friends blithely tossing back candy-colored cocktails at a downtown bar. But it's not only thirtysomethings on TV who persistently overindulge. On a recent episode of the Fox sitcom Undeclared, several college coeds...
There are trade-offs in design too. The PowerLock is built around a pair of gears that give you extra leverage when you're plying your pliers; they also give the whole tool a deliciously smooth unfolding action--it's the only one you can actually flip open one-handed. (The gears also give the tool a complicated look I find irresistible.) On the downside, the PowerLock has its blades positioned along its inside edges, so you have to unfold it into pliers mode to use them. Awkward...