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...onto the grid in motor racing's blue-ribbon championship - Hamilton sits third in the drivers' standings. In the season opener in Australia last month, he steered his way into third place, the best finish by a rookie in more than a decade. Three weeks later, his McLaren car sped past - and then fended off - two frustrated Ferraris to take second place in Malaysia...
When Alabama churches started going up in flame in February 2006, nightmare visions of marauding Ku Klux Klansmen and Satanists, - the first attacking black churches, the second, white churches - sped through the popular imagination. Both groups have been active in Alabama history; and so the devout stood vigil through the night to guard their places of worship from white-robed or otherwise malevolently attired assailants. However, on Monday afternoon, when the perpetrators of the fires appeared in court for sentencing, they were dressed in orange jumpsuits and they claimed to have no racist or devilish designs on the good churchfolk...
...album’s first single, “A House Is Not A Home,” could easily be a sped-up version of “Oh! Darling,” fully fitted with pulsing piano chords and moaning guitar lines. Following it, “In Context” has a guitar part that’s almost a perfect replica of the lead for “Twist and Shout...
...city where no job is safe, but where driving an ambulance is easily one of the riskiest professions. He long ago lost count of the number of times he's been fired on. Once, on Palestine Street, the bullets actually shattered the windows of his ambulance as he sped down the road. He's in it for the money, earning about $150 a month as the only breadwinner in a family of 12. Iraq's unemployment rates are estimated to run as high as 70 percent, and for many, the only reliable work is based around the country's biggest...
...Viet Nam days in America, but rather, ''We are here; we endure; we exist; we will not give up''). But the pounding went on, for the foreigner was suspect, an intruder, and the crowd was in a stoning mood. The driver threw his Mercedes into reverse and sped backward out of the crowd. Then came a hail of stones, crashing on the car's receding steel and glass. Backtracking on the puddled road, past piles of tires burning in a cold rain, the taxi met Israeli army jeeps highballing in the other direction, toward the shabab, the Palestinian youths with...