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...since the 1990s. As with her 2001 book, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, a well-received account of the calamitous rule of Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko, It's Our Turn to Eat - the title refers to the assumption in Kenya that winning elections confers a license to steal - is richly reported and reads, at times, like a thriller. Wrong's sketches of Githongo's sleuthing - when a hidden recording device starts playing back while he is still in the company of two top officials, he has to slip from the room coughing loudly - and the story...
There's nothing like an enraged diva - Beyoncé Knowles giving a head butt to the psychopathic blonde who's trying to kill her and steal her husband - to bring out the crowds on a spring weekend. Enough customers were transfixed by the fatal-distraction drama Obsessed to place it at the top of the weekend's box-office chart with a surprisingly robust $28.5 million, according to early studio estimates. The PG-13 thriller more than doubled the take of its nearest competitor, 17 Again, and earned nearly as much over the weekend as the total of the three...
Moore got into a jam in her first inning of relief, the fifth. With just one out, Moore walked Holy Cross’s Gwen Reimer, then plunked Elizabeth Foley. Moore got the next batter to fly out to left field, and, though the Crusaders deftly executed a double steal to advance both runners to scoring position, Moore got the next Holy Cross hitter to pop a dinky lob shot to the pitcher’s circle for the third and final...
...strikeouts and no walks.The Crimson put a scare into its hosts during the final inning, getting the tying run to second base. Rouches singled with one out before junior first baseman Dan Zailskas worked the count to 2-0 to chase Gormley. Zailskas earned a walk, and a double steal by pinch runners junior Sam Franklin and freshman J.T. Thomes gave the Crimson hope. But Kimball struck out the final two batters to pick up his first of two saves on the day.—Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...
...camera, and running off a car battery on the side of the road, Langford braved the elements ("clouds, rain, hail, fog, gale force winds...") as well as the suspicions of local farmers. "I had someone call the cops on me one time because he thought I was going to steal his alpacas...