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...performing in Baghdad last year, to one of his palaces, security seemed almost nonchalant. Sobhi and his troupe were ushered inside with nary a frisk. Saddam chatted easily, about Iraqi poetry, about the Palestinian problem. He allowed each guest to pose for a picture with him. The notorious dictator struck his Egyptian visitors as steady, smiling, relaxed, cheerful, sensitive, amiable, hospitable. He sounded confident that he had weathered a storm. "Saddam said every Iraqi feels inside him that he is a winner, with his pride intact," recalls Sobhi. "Saddam said, 'We did not lose anything. We refuse to be humiliated...
...struggling in Chicago against the Cubs, having hit a batter and given up three walks and a home run in the first three innings, when he decided to pitch exclusively from the stretch. "I felt I had better command of my pitches in that position," he says. He struck out six of the next 12 batters and didn't give up another run before he was pulled after the seventh...
...patched together by the White House and the Defense Department "as one lie called forth another." He maintains that neither American Airlines Flight 77 nor any other aircraft crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11 - the explosion supposedly detonated on the ground. He similarly rejects notions that the planes that struck the World Trade Center towers were flown by al-Qaeda terrorists and argues they were in fact directed from the ground by remote control...
With the threat partially averted, Crockett struck out Greg Metzger, one of Brown’s top hitters, to end the inning...
That brought up senior Josh San Salvador, who last week hit a walk-off home run to beat the Bears 13-12. S an Salvador couldn’t repeat his heroics this time, however, as he struck out swinging. With the Crimson’s season down to its final out, Walsh decided he had to play the numbers, pinch-hitting for senior Javy Lopez with Kropf, and pinch-running Mann with the faster Seminara...