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...late game, freshman Shelly Madick kept the team in the game through four innings before surrendering a three-run longball in the fifth that sank the Crimson. Madick (1-3) took the loss, giving up six hits and four earned runs in five frames to go along with two strikeouts...
...eventually had his way, and so did Kennedy, and so did Gordon Smith of Oregon, who wanted $14 billion restored to Medicaid, and so did Jim Bunning of Kentucky, who-soaring into the wild blue yonder-wanted $64 billion more in tax cuts. And so, kerplop. The Bush budget sank of its own cynical inelegance. Which leaves us with a legislative mess, the same mess as last year's, when the House and Senate couldn't agree on a budget. Only it's worse this time, because if the two houses can't reconcile themselves, a host of beloved conservative...
...these other issues of internal politics that you’re mentioning. You can’t talk about them. You’ll have to stick to criticizing his comments.” Silence. As I quickly pondered the ethics of what she was saying, my heart sank. Of course, everyone knows the myriad maxims that condemn contemporary media, but I—the lover, the studier, the future of the media—was experiencing its irresponsibility up close...
...When she sank her final free throw with 1:05 remaining in the game, the Harvard bench erupted in a row of delightful peals and waving, white towels...
...captive boyars of the Politburo discussed literature, made policy, denounced colleagues and drank like fish to numb the fear of being led away at dawn. Often, Montefiore records, the dinner "sank to the level of a Neanderthal stag night." Stalin would get so drunk, Nikita Khrushchev remembered, that "he'd throw a tomato at you." Lavrenti Beria liked to slip tomatoes into the old Bolshevik Anastas Mikoyan's suit pockets and push Mikoyan against a wall so that they exploded...