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...helps you if he hits a ground ball, but if the bomb goes off, you can put those infielders anywhere you want to, it doesn't really do you any good. The damage that David does comes when he hits the ball 380 feet. It really does not matter much where you put your infielders when that happens...
...expectations can result in disappointment of course, and there's sure to be some of that next year no matter who wins the White House. In the euphoria of fresh elections it's easy to forget that U.S. Presidents pursue their own agenda first. Depending on who wins, the next Administration could press on with globally unpopular policies such as staying in Iraq, or throw up new trade barriers that would hurt the rest of the world. But for the millions who look to the U.S. as a model, a place of hope and transformation, the world seems a better...
...Thailand on Feb. 28, ending 17 months of exile that began when he was deposed in a bloodless military coup. Thousands of jubilant Thais greeted him at the airport. The former PM faces charges of corruption and abuse of power, which he has denied. But the court cases matter little to Thaksin's many supporters. Even though he has vowed to stay away from politics, a local polling center found that Thaksin is still Thailand's most popular politician. "Everyone says, 'Oh, half of Thailand hates Thaksin,'" says Soonthon Prueksapipat, a website employee who went to the Bangkok airport...
...Yale, he recalls sitting in on a lecture at a Hokkaido-based college to get a feel for the place. The class was "so boring and terrible," Kubodera says, he can't even remember the lecture topic. "In Japan, if you get into college you can graduate no matter what," he says. "In the U.S., it's hard to get in and harder to graduate...
...asked that only his first name be used for security reasons, also disputed parts of the al-Saadi's account. He believes the Australian government handled the matter poorly at the time and failed to keep soldiers informed about the case and the al-Saadi family's move to Australia. "It was always my worst fear. I knew this thing was never going to go away," says the private, who, a month earlier, had been in a vehicle that was attacked by a suicide bomber in a car rigged with explosives...