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...Friday in Providence, the Crimson (9-8, 3-3 Ivy) came out of the blocks with all the pickup of a Mack truck. The Crimson scored six points in the first 12 minutes and shot 20 percent from the floor en route to a 19-32 halftime deficit...
...couple went to a hamburger restaurant in the Quarter called Port of Call, on the corner of Esplanade and Dauphine. They left the restaurant around 10 p.m. and walked down Esplanade toward Mike's pickup truck, half a block away...
...over the years. As a Congressman in the early 1980s, he would lie flat on his back late at night in an empty House gymnasium and hurl the ball at the hoop again and again; when at last he could make the trick shot, he unveiled it in a pickup game with other lawmakers. Representative Gore studied the arms race with the same intensity, working 10 hours a week for a year before championing a simple solution to the Soviet first-strike threat--the single-warhead Midgetman missile. He crammed his mind with facts about computers and technology, coining...
McVeigh: Mr. Saturday Night Testimony at the Terry Nichols trial has produced at least one thing that probably should have remained a secret: Timothy McVeigh's pickup lines...
Kent Pickard unlocks the gate to one of his cornfields--one that abuts Airborne Express's vast shipping complex. "I'm right in the middle of it," says Pickard, 52, wheeling his old pickup through the gate and down a dirt road that ends at an Airborne fence. "From 4:30 in the morning, the airplane takeoffs are constant. Sometimes it shakes the ground under my tractor. Sometimes I think the tractor is coming apart...