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...minutes or so into the second half, the journalists are told it's time to leave. Prison rules forbid visitors after 4 p.m. As the last of Nigeria's six goals is hammered home, a plane roars low over the prison, reminding these caged Super Eagles that their wings have been clipped. In the bleachers the chanting slows, becomes more plangent. Only then you realize what they've been singing all afternoon: "We want to go home, home...
...asked whether he nursed any anxieties about Tyson clamping down on him again. He knew better than to answer. After all, it was Tyson's errant teeth and bite in the thigh that brought the boxers and the world of boxing to Memphis. That bite led Las Vegas to forbid Cannibal Mike from fighting at the key venues there. Then other cities, from California to New York, refused to issue permits for the big bout...
...several hours (or, God forbid, days) pass and your wireless network still isn't working and you're getting nowhere with tech support, it's probably time to call in a pro. Ask your cable guy for a referral--some do network installs on the side--or search HomeNetHelp.com's database. The house call will cost you a couple of hundred bucks. But if you don't tell, nobody has to know...
...become a summoner!” Sadly, the heroes of Final Fantasy seem to grow more androgynous, be they taciturn, long-lashed fighters or spunky, spikey-haired pickpockets. Role-playing games have a girl-friendly reputation, so it helps to have characters both genders can identify with. (Heaven forbid, of course, a female lead.) But as the lead guys get more girly, so, it seems, do the women. The main female characters in FFX can’t hit; they only cast spells. Deadly spells, in one instance, but still. These worlds were invented for fun, as glut troughs...
...changes because to do so would mean losing future tax revenue crucial to finance state programs. Even the nineteenth-century French ruler Napoleon III, who was urged to ban tobacco, once remarked, “This vice brings in 100 million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once—as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue...