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...game; in both, no contest was decided by fewer than three runs. Canseco twitched off the Dodgers jinx and launched one of his ho-hum homers into the 900 area code. Eckersley, accused during the Toronto play-offs of doctoring the ball, hardly needed to suit up, let alone sand up, as the A's performed what amounted to surgery without anesthesia. At the end, in the champagneless locker room, the satisfied heart of A's manager Tony La Russa could be seen beating beneath a T shirt that promoted The Ballet School. The Bash Brethren had pirouetted through disaster...
With their ailing captain, Ross Cockrell, struggling not to leave deposits in the sand traps, Harvard's other four players were on their own. Junior Robert Kincaid led the team, shooting 76-80--156 for the two-round, two-day tournament at the par-72 Hickory Ridge Country Club in Amherst...
Melia Tabono lies semiconscious on a cot, her swollen face glistening with sweat and sand. An intravenous tube drips saline solution into her veins, as a friend, Thelma Nonatura, a fellow Filipino, desperately fans a piece of cardboard to combat the 95 degrees heat. Six weeks ago, Tabono, 38, worked as a seamstress in Kuwait City. Now she is among tens of thousands of refugees struggling to survive in a strip of scorched desert between Iraq and Jordan. "Our lives have been destroyed," murmurs Nonatura. "I can't feel anything anymore...
...babel of languages from hundreds of parched throats, men and women battle their way to the nozzle of the tanker. One feverish man grabs a stone and threatens to bash a competitor's skull. Meanwhile, most of the precious liquid spills on the ground and vanishes into the sand...
Just beyond the truck, a miniature desert tornado forms, funneling sand toward the cloudless sky and scattering garbage as it dances through the camp. "We are not poor people who can live in the desert,"says Mohammed Tahir, 30, who worked for 12 years in Kuwait in an Indian restaurant. "We had jobs and apartments and good lives." Tahir has been in no-man's-land for seven days. As frightened as he was by life in Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion, Tahir insists there is no comparison. He says, "I have come to a place that is even worse...