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...gap between observers and participants has also reached a vanishing point. In at least two cases, American journalists traveling with the troops chose to drop any pretense of detachment. Ron Martz of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution held the IV drip bag of a wounded Iraqi civilian awaiting emergency medical assistance, while Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a contributor to TIME and CNN, operated on a critically injured 2-year-old who later died. The lines these men crossed may seem important in peacetime, but in wartime such lines grow fuzzy and indistinct compared with the bold line that separates life and death...
...INDICATORS Worth The Weight? After three years, Rupert Murdoch won his battle for DirecTV, filling a final gap in his media empire by gaining a U.S. satellite broadcaster - pending regulatory approval. But investors balked at the $6.6 billion deal, sending News Corp. shares down...
...It’s hard to balance that out, to be aggressive but then not get emotional when a guy hits a ball in the gap,” he says. “But you have to be under control at all times, you can’t let one pitch affect you the next pitch. You’ve just got to realize that you’re one pitch away, one out away, from getting out of that jam, and that’s why they make it four bases that you have to touch to score...
...nearby Boston Red Sox have begun to question the traditional wisdom of using a single closer, Wahlberg and the Crimson are posing a strong counter-argument. With a slew of veteran relievers—seniors Brendan Reed, Matt Self, Ryan Tsujikawa and others—available to bridge the gap between the starters and Wahlberg, Harvard will look to its bullpen to lead their team to unfamiliar territory...
...Turkey that the Kurdish fighters would be kept out of the northern oil town, and that, indeed, had been Washington's orders to the guerrillas working with U.S. Special Forces to confront Saddam's northern strongholds. But once Saddam's regime began to collapse, the Kurdish fighters took the gap and drove all the way into Kirkuk...