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...trolled across rocky shallows at the point. Suddenly, a monster hit. My rod gesticulated crazily. I jerked back to set the hook. The indignant invisible thing fought back and I watched line peeling out even as I tried to reel in. The judge threw the motor into neutral. I found then that I could make some grudging progress against the brute. He did not, however, jump...
...outboards and circling around behind. As they approached, crashing over the bow wave and skidding on the bubbling sea, thrown up by the tanker's immense screws, two men from the first team stood and lifted their poles as though for a joust. As soon as they could hook the side of the ship, they began climbing, the pilot accelerating in short bursts to keep the boat steady. In seven seconds, the first man was over the side and crouching by the rail, keeping watch. Five men followed and headed straight to the bridge where they took the captain...
...Every Time I Look at You" to Sum 41's "Fat Lip" to Jettingham's "Cheating" the mode is uptempo, plaintive but not gloomy, a little angry but good-humored. For all that blending of rap and metal and punk, they're still craftsmanlike pop songs, peppy, hook-centered, reasonably entertaining. None of them are insufferable, but the only one that totally kicks ass is American Hi-Fi's "Vertigo," which happens to be the lone slab of undiluted Cheap Trick-era rawk. It doesn't extend an olive branch to hip-hop fans with a DJ scratch...
...whether the cleanup is an effort worth its while. In other words, Bush and Whitman will have plenty of opportunities to back off from this fight in the years ahead. But for now, the Bush team took one look at the alternative - headlines like "Bush Lets Big Corporation Off Hook On River Cleanup" - and laced up its gloves...
...plight of the Palestinians, and even a number of human rights groups fiercely critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians under occupation have warned that it's an inappropriate discussion that could derail the conference's objectives. Of course, that doesn't get Israel off the hook on the issue of racism. (Speaking personally, I can understand the impulse to question a principle that allows me, as a South African-born Jew who can trace his origins back into mediaeval Europe, the right of "return," but denies the same to a Palestinian colleague born there but forced to leave...