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...words that one would expect to inspire anguish or disappointment, but when they are uttered by the steward conducting the draw at Henley, and they are being used to describe the crew that will race against Cambridge in the first round of the Ladies’ Challenge plate, they take on a new and very harsh meaning...
...boast multiple Indian restaurants, yuppie coffee shops, and chic bars. But ironically enough, in what is perhaps America’s most Irish city, the Square is not home to a tavern with a uniquely Gaelic bent, one with Guinness on tap and corned beef and cabbage on your plate...
...Well, older kids will appreciate the savvy pop-culture parodies and the heroine, a sassy, tween fly with a nonconformist streak. When a clique of her trendy peers decides it's no longer cool to regurgitate food--part of the natural fly digestion process--she defiantly barfs on a plate of garbage and declares, in a Spartacus moment, "I am a fly!" The barfing jokes explain why the 6-year-olds will like...
...known for the purest swing and the poorest luck in the National League. When the fifth game of the 1972 playoffs--the very pennant--came down to one pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning with two out and the winning run on third, McRae was at the plate poised to be the hero. But Pittsburgh's Bob Moose threw a wild pitch that utterly erased the figure in the batter's box from memory. With the bases loaded in the seventh game of the World Series, McRae managed only to tie the Oakland A's with a deep...
...promised an unspecified profit for the fourth quarter. If he delivers, it will be the first time TWA has finished that period in the black since 1966. Even so, says J. Clarence Morrison, a senior analyst at the Dean Witter Reynolds investment firm, the "question is whether Icahn's plate is now getting too full...