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Jessi and Lori stood back to back, because it just felt safer that way. They joked, or tried to, because they were so scared. As hard as she tries now, Jessi cannot remember what they said. It was something silly, something about not getting shot...
...just one more assistant referee with a TV set would be enough. Referee errors get more annoying as TV coverage matures to perfection: instant slow-motion replays from different angles show exactly whether a foul was real or faked, a hand blocked a shot from scoring, or a player stood offside. Everyone can see what really happened, except the referee who has to make the call. The referee reviewing the video replay could communicate with his colleague on the field over his earphones in a matter of seconds - a short time lag to forestall crucial injustice and worldwide frustration. Nicolas...
...June 16th, as the existence of the tour stood in limbo, Jones and Schofield-Bodt noticed a peculiar person in the crowd for one of their tours...
...last one year). It points up the seemingly intractable east-west dispute that erupted in violence two days after the July 2 vote, when members of the Santa Cruz Youth League attacked a meeting of the mostly indigenous Regional Worker Union in Santa Cruz, injuring dozens, while local police stood by. The commanding police officer was later fired but claims that he was only following the orders of the state's governor and autonomy advocate Ruben Costas not to intervene...
...rooms (compared with 133,000 in Las Vegas) can't accommodate big conventions. At the same time, a real estate boom in once dumpy shore towns from Long Branch to Asbury Park was spreading south. The Atlantic City development angered some homeowners and small businesses whose property stood in the way. But in a town where more than half the city budget comes from property taxes on casinos, things have a way of progressing...