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...Staehely was plagued by shoddy infield defense (six errors, four by shortstop Greg Van Horn) as he surrendered six runs, only one earned, and seven hits in six innings while the Crimson lineup ran his pitch count up to 105. When asked about the preseason Pitcher of the Year snub, Haviland jokingly said, “I didn’t notice that,” before deciding not to comment. But he did laud his team’s efforts against his counterpart. “He’s a fastball-changeup guy, and they just drove...
...Oscars are rife with the usual mistakes and oversights. “Little Children” should have been nominated for Best Picture over the overwrought “Babel,” and “Letters” star Ken Watanabe’s Best Actor snub is a terrible omission, especially in a year when Hollywood is pretending to care about international films. The Academy ignored many critics’ international favorites as well. Where is French writer-directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Palm d’Or winner...
Arenas fuels himself on such insults. Last summer's Team U.S.A. snub offered fresh motivation. "It was predetermined," he says of the selection process: 14 players were flown to China, then Korea, for tournament tune-ups, although only 12 would make the World Championship roster. "They flew me all the way out there, and I thought I had a big shot. It was frustrating." Firing a dart at Team U.S.A. and Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski, Arenas wrote on an nba.com blog, "I'll give up one NBA season to play against Duke." He swore to score 50 points against...
...affect them. This is hardly surprising for a man who can barely leave his home without American logistical support, but the leaked memo from somewhere in the Bush Administration sank the President's plans for a take-charge summit. Al-Maliki abruptly canceled his planned meeting with Bush--a snub for which there is no well-known precedent--and waited until the following morning to have breakfast and a shortened, 45-min. session with him. There was little chemistry in that encounter; by all accounts al-Maliki looked sour and lost. During a short photo break, al-Maliki refused...
...were at odds over their interpretations of communism), and a perceptive understanding of Chinese sensibilities. She explains, for example, the importance of that Nixon-Zhou handshake and a later one between Nixon and Mao that appears on the book's cover: the Chinese feared a replay of their humiliating snub at the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and Korea, when U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spurned Zhou's proffered hand...