Word: shells
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...this year's loss, they may find it hard to snap up the usual big names. The Yankees are saddled with multiyear, multimillion-dollar deals for pitchers Kevin Brown and Javier Vazquez, two goats of the final league-championship game, and for first baseman Jason Giambi, who is a shell of what he once was. Of course, the Yankees' deep-pocketed owner, George Steinbrenner, can budget through those problems. And Houston's Carlos Beltran, the sexiest free agent on the market, could well be in center field for the Yankees come April, a $100 million asking price be damned. "From...
Indeed, at the Centennial Celebration, Gorra’s profile of the typical Green hero as “a shell of humanity” who notably “preserves himself from involvement [in a situation in order to maintain his integrity]” is remarkably similar to modern literature’s steely hero. Wood furthermore describes Greene’s brand of heroes as “those sort of feeding on their own vitals, consumed by a sort of cynicism and lassitude...
...which Stipe openly invited the crowd to sing along, as if they hadn’t been doing so all along. Surprisingly, Andy Kaufman’s death elegy did little to sap the mood from the night: When the lights came up many in the audience looked completely shell-shocked by the two-hour set’s incessant energy...
...aiming at the crowd. A chest-high bullet hole in a concrete post in the park seems to indicate that this might have been the case. The Nation newspaper in Bangkok printed a photograph of a soldier aiming at the crowd with his automatic weapon horizontal to the ground, shell casings spurting out from the magazine. Ai says she saw two men killed in front of her and immediately began to run, like the rest of the crowd, to the river, where they took shelter behind the embankment. Some began swimming out to boats, which had come close...
...Even at home, Beijing has faced embarrassing setbacks in its efforts to produce more oil and gas. In August, a consortium led by oil giant Shell pulled out of a just-finished gas pipeline running 4,400 km from China's western deserts to Shanghai after the firms decided their returns would be too small. A planned oil pipeline covering the same distance has also seen no takers. Shell and Unocal also backed out of a multibillion-dollar project this month to tap gas fields under the East China Sea. And no foreign companies have been willing to participate...