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...many old-timers who saw the Red Sox lose their first World Series, way back in 1946. I was 16 and hitchhiked from Iowa City, Iowa, to St. Louis, Missouri, for Game 1. I slept in the railroad station and bought a $3 standing-room ticket behind home plate. The Sox tied the game in the ninth, and Rudy York won it in the 10th with a blast to the last row of the bleachers?and I was the only one in the park yelling. I'm happy for today's Boston kids with their cell phones and painted faces...
...electronic daily organizer and cell phone (which he was nearly successful in saving), his actions should not serve as a model to other students. Not only did Lord put himself in unnecessary danger, he was almost run over as he chased after the robbers, attempting to read their license plate number. Students must bear in mind that robbers, especially those with firearms, nearly always have the tactical advantage in an altercation. In short, comply with their requests...
...term, it looks as if North Korea policy will assume a new prominence in American statecraft?and the Administration will take a harder line on Pyongyang. Skeptics argue that Bush has never had a North Korea policy, only an attitude, and that he has more than enough on his plate in Iraq to keep him busy. But such arguments may "misunderestimate" the temperament of both Bush and the U.S. This is not a President who dreams of leaving behind a few new treaties as his political legacy; he thinks in more simple terms of making a dangerous world safer...
...said that "recent events are likely to constitute a turning point in Middle Eastern history." Arab rulers saw reason for encouragement in the moderate cast of emerging Palestinian leaders and said Muslims were ready. As a senior Arab official put it, "If we all step up to the plate, we are in business again...
...restaurants dotting the Eastern seaboard. The Boston branch is housed in a regal medieval-style “castle” which dates back to 1891 and is officially known as the Armory of the First Corps of Cadets. Designed to withstand siege, the building features a drawbridge, triple-plate iron doors and flanking turrets that enabled guards to sweep every inch of exterior wall with crossfire...