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...true that Boston lost this series with a spate of disastrous fielding errors and a horrific batting drought that reminded fans of old Sox teams, who would regularly load the bases with one out and fail to bring anyone home. But the natural highs and lows of this series (juxtaposed so stunningly in Games 3 and 4) will forever be stained by the artificial interference of poor umpiring calls in Games...
...forgive John McCain for getting a little overexcited about campaign finance reform. It?s the North Star of whatever presidential hopes he still has these days, and here, finally, was his (and Russ Feingold?s) perennially quixotic bill, on the Senate floor for six days of full debate. The spate of pump-priming jeremiads about pork-barrel bills and soft-money corruption that McCain posted on his web site must have seemed utterly appropriate ? but not to Mitch McConnell. "Someone must be corrupt for there to be corruption," McConnell said on Thursday, challenging McCain to come forth with specific charges...
...gone unnoticed that Gates' spate of generosity coincides with the government's antitrust trial against Microsoft, which has not gone well for his company. But by encouraging a more diverse flow of talent into the high-tech workforce, Gates will be helping all tech companies, including Microsoft...
...national attention focused on students' heavy alcohol use by the report was rekindled during in the next few years with each account of a student's alcohol-related death. A spate of such tragedies occurred on college campuses throughout the country. One tragedy in particular, the death from acute alcohol poisoning of Scott Krueger at an MIT fraternity, caught the national consciousness. The fact that this could happen even at an academically elite institution meant that it could happen anywhere...
...Chechen capital, Grozny, on Thursday, and massed some 13,000 troops on the rebellious state?s border. At the same time, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claimed U.S. support for his efforts, alleging that terrorist financier Osama bin Laden is behind the unrest in the Caucasus and the recent spate of apartment bombings. "The U.S. has expressed support for Russia?s fight against domestic terrorism, but it may find itself in a tight spot if Moscow goes to war with Chechnya in the name of that fight," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "It?s too early to tell whether this...