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...will defend Clemens, pointing to the hamstring injury that suddenly flared up as soon as Oakland starting wailing on him in Game One of the ALDS. Who knows, maybe Roger actually was playing hurt. With Clemens, though, it’s always something—a pulled groin, a sore hamstring or a hangnail. By now, Roger is pretty much the boy who cried wolf. And whether he fakes his injuries or not, whether he asks out of games or not, the reality is, for one reason or another, he always disappears when the game is on the line. Most...
...forward for their country. "I cannot say it will be peaceful again in my lifetime?only God knows," says Ahmed Shah, who left his village of Bachkot in Nangarhar a year ago. The despondency is widespread. Farras has a constant cough, a runny nose and an open sore on his cheek. His mother puts kohl around his eyes to ward off bad spirits?they cannot afford medicine. Neither Farras nor any of his 10 brothers have gone to school?there is no school in their village and, like their father, they will likely be illiterate all their lives. Farras...
...efforts to conquer the Holy Land from the Muslims in the Crusades of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries is not forgotten in the Middle East (making President Bush's early use of the word crusade to describe America's antiterror effort an unfortunate choice). An even greater sore is the sense that, in the centuries since, so much dignity has been lost, and to an inferior people. In Islamic belief, Muhammad is God's last prophet; he built upon the revelations of Moses and Jesus to propound a superior, perfect faith. But the world that faith created was broken...
...networks to admit at four in the morning that the race was too close to call, that we were in a statistical dead heat and the outcome would have to await, at the very least, an automatic recount. Ever since, Gore has been cast in the role of sore loser whose congressional support could evaporate in an instant, a supplicant trying to win in court what he didn't win at the ballot box. And every day the media persist in calling the race anew. A reporter will read the latest polls showing that a majority of the American people...
...shoulder begins to get a little sore from all the walking back and forth with the golf...