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...ninth inning and attacked Tom Gamboa, first-base coach of the visiting Kansas City Royals, and began beating him. The Royals immediately cleared the bench and piled on the two men, identified as WILLIAM LIGUE JR., 34, and his 15-year-old son. Security guards entered the fray and dragged the shirtless duo off the field, after which a folded pocket knife was found on the ground. As for motivation, besides utter stupidity, the elder Ligue suggested that he had exchanged words with Gamboa and that the coach had made an obscene gesture, a charge vehemently denied by Gamboa...
...Back then the Bush Administration was forced reluctantly into the fray to attempt a mediation. Vice President Cheney had toured Arab capitals in April hoping to drum up support for action against Iraq, and had been told everywhere he went that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis was a far greater, and more immediate threat to regional stability. That forced the Bush Administration to rethink its Middle East policy, first sending Secretary of State Powell out to literally rescue Arafat, and two months later the President called for Arafat's removal as the precursor to a quick-time march to Palestinian statehood...
...your lives and in these years at college, you are making decisions,” he said. “I urge you to spend time in the fray...of social justice...
...budget traveler. From December, Brussels-based Virgin Express is planning flights from Cologne-Bonn Airport. Even German flagship Lufthansa appears to be getting the message; last month it gave its blessing to a proposal by German carrier Eurowings, in which it has a key shareholding, to enter the budget fray. Soon, Germans may discover what travelers from Britain now take for granted: for the consumer, no-frills fares are just fine...
...after the large champagne bottle. Capa next traveled to the Soviet Union, but the cold war did not suit his talents. Grazed - and badly shaken - by a bullet in Tel Aviv in 1948, he sat out the Korean War. But the gambler in him was lured back into the fray in 1954, to work again for Life magazine. "This is going to be a beautiful story," he said as he set out from the village of Nam Dinh, in Vietnam's Red River delta, on May 25, the last morning of his life. "I will be on my good behavior...