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...opponent midround for landing a punch. In the Tommy Burns fight, the frame freezes as police stop the fight and order the cameras stilled to spare the world the trauma of seeing a black fighter whip a white one. On film, Johnson's singularity is stark: he is a lone, relentless black giant amidst a sea of white faces...
...gone now and the ports swallowed whole. With bulldozers scarce, elephants have been enlisted to help clear debris. When pilots try to fly into a small airport, they find that the maps are suddenly wrong because the landscape has been rubbed away. Precious hours were lost when the lone airstrip in Banda Aceh was closed after a 737 hit a water buffalo while trying to land. "We need to make small, damaged airstrips some of the busiest airports in the world," says the U.N.'s Jan Egeland. In some Sumatran villages, it was impossible to deliver any goods...
Freshman Dave Watters’ power-play goal—the first of his collegiate career and the Crimson’s lone conversion in four man-advantage opportunities—at 6:02 kept Harvard’s hopes alive, if only for a few moments. Springing from the penalty box as his minor expired, Schmidt received a long outlet pass behind the Crimson defense and raced in on Tobe all alone, roofing his effort to reestablish the Warriors’ three-goal edge...
Taylor was one of the lone bright spots in Harvard’s loss to Merrimack, frequently showing an aggressive instinct that his entire team could never consistently produce. He assisted the last goal of the game, scored by Andrew Lederman with 11.4 seconds left...
...Stern moved to satellite radio to duck government monitoring of the public airwaves. Fox News continued its guerrilla war against its rivals and ended up beating the networks at G.O.P. Convention time. Jon Stewart's fake news show took on real news shows--and won. Richard Clarke waged a lone, self-righteous battle against his former bosses in the Bush Administration. The swift-boat vets launched a publicity-seeking missile at one of their own--John Kerry. On the other side, George Soros helped bankroll a million points of protest ads against the Bush Administration--and came up short...