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Worse yet, with the injury and lengthy rehabilitation, Vance lost his grip on the starting shortstop job he had so highly anticipated. With his shoulder still ailing and Stoeckel making great strides at short in the offseason, Vance will likely see most of his time in centerfield for the third straight year...
...would a true patriot attempt to chill free debate when so many American lives are at stake, and therefore deny the very principles of our Republic? Or would that be “a full validation of the al Qaeda strategy”—to grip us in such fear that we are willing to forget ourselves...
...Gershon Aka, a bank clerk 12 years her senior. The first few years of married life were a strange combination of personal joys and national disaster. Suzzy and her husband had two children--son Jubilant, now 25, and daughter Nutifafe (Peace), 23--but drought and hunger were tightening their grip. "You would go to the forest and search for cassava," says Suzzy. "Whatever you could find...
...looking for an explanation of the wild behavior of financial markets in recent days, this failure to get a grip on risk is as good a one as any. Many analysts attributed the mini-panic that began in Shanghai to a sudden change in investor "risk appetite." But why now? What suddenly made everybody see the future as riskier...
...officer says that since the restrictions have been in place, the overall atmosphere has been better, attributing some prior problems to the fact that it is difficult to monitor the situation inside the clubs. “The city’s trying to get a grip on things,” he says. “A lot of times the bouncers take it outside and it would be best if they let us handle it from the door.”At least for now, the officer has his way. Until further notice, the 18 to 21-year...