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...officials thought it was odd that a 27-year-old dressed like he'd just gotten out of class-as DeChristopher had-was bidding for oil and gas leases, they didn't say anything. At first he simply bid near the beginning of an auction, to keep prices rolling, but as the sales continued, he started to win plots of land-12 parcels in all, more than 22,000 acres, at the cost of $1.79 million. By the end, DeChristopher was simply bidding nonstop, and BLM officials finally caught on to what he was doing and took him into custody...
...absence in Sunday’s contest to a shoulder injury sustained earlier in the week.Besides the disadvantage of competing without the 2006 All-American, the Crimson demonstrated inexplicable improvement over the course of a day, baffling the coaching staff.“We’re in an odd position,” Weiss said. “I saw a different team on Saturday and Sunday, so the question is, where do we go from here?”As the Ivy season fast approaches, Harvard can only hope that it finds its stride in time.ARMY 30, HARVARD...
...World Music Theater near Chicago. 'NSync, the hunky young pop stars who'd just had a radio hit with 'I Want You Back' were opening the outdoor show. Bradley was backstage. The band was hanging out in its trailer before its brief set. Bradley smelled something odd. It seemed to be coming from a large metal fence, covered with a blue plastic tarp, which separated the bands from the performers. Then he realized desperate fans were using lighters to burn holes in the tarp so they could get a better look at Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, and the rest...
...television's most famous odd couples appeared on the ABC show Fantasy Island: Herv Villechaize as Tattoo and Ricardo Montalbn, 88, as Mr. Roarke--two dream makers at a remote resort in the Pacific. Montalbn, a champion of Latinos in the entertainment industry, founded the advocacy group Nosotros...
...give me goose pimples," he says. His flesh crawls at odd moments. In Wind from the Sea Wyeth opens an upstairs window in Christina Olson's house in a room that has been closed for years, and the billowing of lace curtains lets in a sudden puff of salty air. Wyeth is moved. Abruptly glimpsing his own reflection in a dusty mirror leads to an unexpected 1949 self-portrait, The Revenant, where he stands perplexed and unbalanced in an abandoned room. The amber glass ball on a lightning rod in Northern Point looks to him "as if it were...