Word: loudnesses
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...caught dozing and a kid walloped a ball 250 feet. I looked up to see it tailing rapidly, about 15 feet above the left field foul pole. I suppose some folks would have called it a three-run homer, but I just called it a foul ball--a really loud foul ball...
...center of their world." Pat and her husband worked long hours to provide for the boy. His grandfather Doug Golden insists that "Drew understood law and order." He believes his grandson wasn't close to Mitchell Johnson. "Did this kid threaten him or intimidate him," he wonders out loud, "like maybe he was victimized?" After all, he notes, "this kid had made threats at school and pulled a knife," referring to reports about Mitch. "The sad part is that no one listened." In a statement from the family, read by Val Price, the public defender who appointed himself Drew...
...improbable and unnatural as it may seem. "The healing cannot begin until we forgive," said Gary Cremeens, a minister at the funeral of Paige Ann Herring, the first of the girls to be buried. He intoned the story of Jesus and Lazarus from the Gospel: "He cried with a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come forth.' And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes." A promise of resurrection--and an allusion to the deepest of sorrows. For it was over Lazarus that Jesus wept. In a more modern tribute to the girls, Celine Dion's My Heart...
...shift from the usual patronizing handouts. Africans were still hearing a new emphasis. But it could have been something more. The message so far has been a series of set pieces illustrating bite-size issues rather than setting out a fully coherent policy. The one theme that came through loud and clear was apology for the past...
...expanded so that even one pass, if egregious enough, can be legally actionable. Repeated efforts are not needed. The far better argument would be to admit that we, and the world, have changed since the Thomas hearings. For one thing, lots of men get it now. Women are heard loud and clear; one accusation alone can be ruinous...