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...afternoon's session was held out-of-doors and a great crowd gathered. A treat was had by all. Mr. Darrow called the opposing counsel Mr. Bryan as a witness to prove that the Bible need not be taken literally, questioned him about Jonah and the whale, Joshua and the Sun, whence Mrs. Cain, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel. Mr. Darrow bellowed his purpose to "show up Fundamentalism, to prevent bigots and ignoramuses from controlling education in the U. S." Mr. Bryan shook his fist, roared back his purpose "to protect the Word of God from the greatest atheist...
...ABDUCTED. RUBEN OMAR ROMANO, 47, coach of Mexico's first-division soccer team Cruz Azul; by armed kidnappers; in Mexico City. Romano, an Argentine who led the club to a second-place finish this year, was ambushed while driving away from a practice session, according to eyewitnesses. A note found near a church demanded a $500,000 ransom. Sixty-seven people have been kidnapped in Mexico City so far this year...
...that the pitch didn’t cause him considerable anxiety. Summers practiced his delivery two nights before his Fenway debut in a private session with Harvard assistant baseball coach Matt Hyde...
That made his practice session with Hyde all the more important. “He was going to throw from behind the pitcher’s rubber like it was the baseline in tennis, so I had to get him straightened out,” Hyde recalled. “I told him they’d probably have him throw from 45 feet or something. But Larry said, ‘No, if I’m going to do this, I’m going to do it from the full distance...
Much of my grand jury session revolved around my notes and my e-mails. (Those e-mails and notes were given to the special counsel when Time Inc., over my objections, complied with a court order.) Owing to my typing, some words were a jumble. For instance, I wrote "don't get too war out on Wilson," when I clearly meant "far out." There were some words in my notes that I could not account for--at one point they read, "...notable..." I didn't know if that was Rove's word or mine, and one grand juror asked...