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...laughter. For the rest of the country, it seemed to reinforce our love-hate relationship with corporate America: One moment we are cogs in the system-ruined by Enron marauders and corrupt bankers; the next, we all have a chance of hitting it big and finding a supercharged Googleified rocket ship. As I drove out of the parking lot and cruised up 101 North toward San Francisco, the sun was shining brightly, the fog had lifted and it was as if the whole of Silicon Valley cried out, "We're baaaaack...
...inside pitch from Brown hurler Brian Tews, Farkes turned and hammered a 390-foot rocket into the shrubs beyond left field. That rocket shot, his tenth home run of the season, tied him for the Harvard school single-season record...
...disapproval. "We are all waiting for the last day of our life," Rantisi said then. "If it is by an Apache [helicopter] or by cardiac arrest, I prefer that it will be by Apache." Indeed, Shin Bet, the Israeli intelligence service, had long tracked Rantisi--he survived a rocket attack last year--and Saturday night, when he drove on a Gaza street without the usual buffering entourage of civilians, the Israelis seized the opportunity...
...consider this: Harvard showed little sign Tuesday night of carrying a burden. After watching Boston College jump to a 7-0 lead before their first base hit, the Crimson put up a four spot in the fifth—capped by a three-run rocket of a home run by Hendricks, which sailed over Campanelli’s Merianbros.com Tuxedo sign...
...brutality of the fight they are waging. Empty brass casings, cigarette cartons and ammunition boxes lay strewn about the floor of the commandeered house. The Marines were essentially pinned down inside the building for several days last week while insurgents peppered it with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). Whenever U.S. attack helicopters swooped in to fire rockets into the city, they were greeted with gunfire. Marines on the ground spotted the muzzle flashes and called in bombs directed at the shooters. "This big fight had to happen at some point," said Baccellieri, 23, from Portland...