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...newfound hands, porcupining from the inside as they regained feeling, reached up to touch a nose that had been smashed against his cheekbone. Memory flashed: the carnage that had stared back at him from the mirror the night before, the purple polka-dot bruises that dappled his face and shoulders and back. Like the flanks of an Appaloosa horse, he thought to himself; then, because he had lost his gallop and barbed wire fenced-in his prairie, he thought again--a spotted fawn, tucktail and fear-frozen at the sound of a pine cone dropping. Except it was more like...
...newfound hands, porcupining from the inside as they regained feeling, reached up to touch a nose that had been smashed against his cheek-bone. Memory flashed: the carnage that had stared back at him from the mirror the night before, the purple polka-dot bruises that dappled his face and shoulders and back. Like the flanks of an Appaloosa horse, he thought to himself; then, because he had lost his gallop and barbed wire fenced-in his prairie, he thought again--a spotted fawn, tucktail and fear-frozen at the sound of a pine cone dropping. Except it was more...
...newfound strength comes none too late, as the lights begin preparation for the Eastern Championships next week. "This was a satisfying race for us," Kirk said, "but at the moment B.U. is the team to beat at the sprints. We might be able to beat them with a little luck...
...Philip Graham. Eventually Graham used Meyer's money to buy out the competition and create a morning monopoly in Washington. According to conventional wisdom, that is the time when publishers kick out the reporters and make room for the advertisers. Graham did nothing of the sort; he used his newfound security to take on better journalists and increase his paper's authority. Graham's suicide in 1963 suddenly pushed his shy wife Katharine into the job of publisher. To nearly everyone's surprise, she rose to the challenge, hired the editors who hired the reporters who took on, eventually...
...should modify its old ways, and stop treating Mexico with condescension. Nothing but Mexico's newfound energy resources is likely to motivate American leaders to do so; nonetheless, the change is welcome no matter how self-interested the reason. The U.S. should not allow its past mistakes to shape its future policy. In the future, both nations should vigorously pursue compromise on issues such as illegal immigration, trade policy, U.S. purchase of Mexican oil and natural gas and Mexico's internal economic development...