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Rubin started the bottom of the ninth by fanning Rivard, and then made impressive barehand stab of a Cahalan grounder to throw her out. She then got Cohen to pop out to short to end the game...
...Kelley, 59, who lives in a campground near Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and bills himself as "the last Confederate soldier," is one of four Republicans challenging Reagan in the New Hampshire primary. Of course, there is also Harold Stassen, 76, the "boy wonder" of the 1940s, who with his eighth stab at the Oval Office has transformed himself into, well, the Harold Stassen of the 1980s...
...pellet was fired from a neighboring building and hit Nilguen Eksi, 18, as she was sitting by an open window in her parents' flat in West Berlin. "I felt a stab of pain in my right arm and screamed," she says. "They had to take me to the hospital to have the pellet removed." The police caught the culprit, a young German, who admitted responsibility. "He fired the gun at me because I was Turkish," said Nilguen. That incident occurred a year ago. More recently, Nilguen's mother Melahab, 39, was accosted in the street by a German...
...Calvin, not Luther, who created a theology for Luther's politics, controversial then and now, was his opposition to the bloody Peasants' War of 1525. The insurgents thought they were applying Luther's ideas but he urged rulers to crush the revolt: "Let whoever can, stab, strike, kill." Support of the rulers was vital for the Reformation, but Luther loathed violent rebellion and anarchy in any case...
...when they see it on a staff. But he writes with his usual quirky vigor and never loses sight of the quotidian world in which mystic chords get written: glossing one of his own scores, he recalls such details of its composition as "a particular face on television, a stab of heartburn, the cat licking my toes." Those who persist through the occasional thickets of crotchets and quavers will find in this little book the middle C of Anthony Burgess...