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...Everything about McAfee Coliseum exudes football stadium, from its awkward middle-of-nowhereness to its uncomfortably vast foul territories. But the football mentality also brings out the tailgaters, which is something I certainly haven’t seen much of at either PETCO or Angel Stadium...
...succeed, depending on luck or the smallest minutiae of a player’s performance. A manager might make the logical call to take out a starting pitcher after 130 pitches over eight and two-thirds shutout innings in a 1-0 game, but fans and pundits will cry foul if the next batter hits a home...
Tweleted raises some larger privacy concerns. When users delete a post on Twitter, it disappears from their user profile but not from Twitter's search-engine results. Tweleted uses this loophole to dig up deleted posts. Some Twitter users are crying foul, arguing that when they delete something, it should be gone for good. The company says it's working to make this happen, although setting your Twitter profile to private fixes the issue. For now, it's worth remembering the old adage: If you don't want someone to read it, it's better not to write...
...exceptional to fall foul of Iran: the country's ideology, behavior and ambition provoke strong reactions. Egypt and Iran, for example, have never made up over a host of disagreements that go back to the earliest days of Iran's revolution; their relationship is shot through with differences over Palestine, and exacerbated by the fact that one is mainly Shi'a and the other mainly Sunni. And then there is Tehran's ongoing feud with...
...surrounded by walls topped with enough razor wire and rifle-toting guards to look like penitentiaries. This year tandem motorcycle-riding was banned because it was such a popular M.O. for drive-by shootings, and daylight saving time was canceled because the dark mornings created too many opportunities for foul play. Even so, bus drivers face being killed by armed extortionists during rush hour, and lawyers who complain about government corruption can turn up under the bougainvilleas with a few bullets to the head...