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...second round of the playoffs. He put up, as the sports guys say, "Big-time numbers." Those would be: 100 points and 47 rebounds in a mere three games. He also shot 52 percent from the floor, made 8 of 11 from beyond the three-point arc and sank 32 of his 36 free throws, and graced the cover of Tuesday's issue of Sports Illustrated, his goateed face soaring...
...number, the Dow and NASDAQ started to sag under IBM and Microsoft and not a few other heavywieghts, and after a last trading hour of total dejection, the Dow had had its worst week since September and was back under five digits at 9,910. The NASDAQ sank 49 to 1,663. Only bonds celebrated, and on the postgame shows, the capitulation-watch was back...
...stories sank in, cocky airline pilots - many of whom have combat experience - seemed humbled by the challenge of dealing with terrorism. The class laughed when one presenter showed a cartoon of Richard Reid, the scraggly "shoe-bomber" who tried and failed to blow up an American Airlines flight from Europe last December. But the lecturer scolded them. "Reid was not a bumbling idiot. In fact, the sophistication of his operation should make you shiver...
Ronz has been limited by bicep tendonitis for much of the year, and only made three brief appearances before yesterday in which he gave up a combined four longballs. One of them was a disastrous two-homer, no-out meltdown that sank the Crimson against Penn on Saturday...
...With a fiery look in her eyes, she shouted angrily: "I will not audition!" Defeated, we continued our lunch. When finally the dessert tray was offered, she looked it over carefully and said to the waiter in a perfect German accent, "I zink I vill haf ze apple strudle, sank you." She had the dessert, we had our star, and I got to work with one of the greatest actresses I ever...