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When the E.M.T.s began wheeling stretchers out of the ambulances, the pitch rose toward the film’s climax. We immediately began to suspect the worst—surely, if there were ambulances, someone must be hurt! Sensational! And when the police assured us that ambulances were always present at fires as a matter of protocol, you could almost hear our collective sigh—of relief, of course...
...Gratch’s 141, it was the number of times he hit pay dirt that led Cornell to victory. Simmons most pivotal play came with 6:46 left in the fourth quarter and Cornell still trailing by three, 24-21. Simmons ran 11-yards on a right pitch, and extended his hand and the football into the endzone as he was being forced out of bounds. That touchdown proved to be the difference, as Cornell hung...
Michael, a feckless Hong Kong singer-songwriter, sits in a Beijing restaurant delivering an ambitious pitch: he, too, could be a star on the mainland. Beijing rocker Road (Geng Le), his starry-eyed girlfriend Yang Yin (Shu Qi) and other members of their underground band are skeptical. The mainlanders mock Michael's Hong Kongese-ness and bait him to party like a man. Michael (Daniel Wu) reaches into his pocket and pulls out some spliffs. "Ah," says Yang, "the Hong Kong peasant grows...
...storybook career as a Yankee, dumped a single to left as the faithful serenaded him with chants of ?Paul-ie, Paul-ie.? Then, with two out, first baseman Tino Martinez, who like most of the Yankees batsman had been hitless and helpless to this point, smoked the first pitch he saw over the wall in right center...
...merciless war. Last week Rumsfeld acknowledged as much when he defended the military's use of flesh-shredding cluster bombs on Taliban trenches. "They are being used on front-line al-Qaeda and Taliban troops," he explained, "to try to kill them." Americans rarely hear so blunt a sales pitch. From here on in, they'd better get used...