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Amid their gloom, Boston Red Sox fans can find a ray of hope in the New York Yankees' big trade for Alex Rodriguez, baseball's highest-paid player. Over the past 15 years, having the richest player on your team has not been a ticket to success (see below). One problem: because of his restructured salary deal, A-Rod's pay won't be No. 1 in 2004. That honor now goes to Manny Ramirez--of the Red Sox. Talk about cursed...
...young Bargeld and percussionist N.U.Unruh picked metal trash off the streets and, for the first time, beat out their existential angst on the overpass on the Autobahn. “Perpetuum Mobile” inherits the drama of it all with just a tinge of self-mockery beneath the gloom...
...thought he was gloomy,” Whitman said. “But then I went and talked to him and it wasn’t gloom; it was determination...
...thought he was gloomy,” Whitman said. “But then I went and talked to him and it wasn’t gloom; it was determination...
Mohammad Sarfarz Khan strides up a short mud path to a tunnel dug into the hillside, enters and disappears. The 61-year-old Kashmiri villager is sure-footed in the gloom, feeling his way around the shelter with practiced confidence. When he reaches the inner bunker, Khan pulls a blanket around his shoulders and peers out of a small window. It is from here that, since 1989, he has watched thousands of Indian and Pakistani artillery shells describe golden arcs as they split the air of the valley below. "I suppose we were lucky," he says, of surviving 14 years...