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...arrived at the Houghton library slightly early; and was pleasantly surprised by the sizeable—if predominantly tweed-jacketed and elderly—audience. The polished and antique feel of the exhibition room seemed an appropriate setting. I settled into my seat, struck by the spring sun, smugly secure in my own Englishness...
Sensing a scoring opportunity, Holy Cross shortstop Ed Turner took a big lead off of third. But although Sevier was having trouble finding the strike zone, the guy he was throwing to had a lethally accurate arm. Lentz gunned Turner down at third, and Sevier struck out the next batter to keep the game close...
...That isn't true. I made up the part about dreaming. In fact, after the twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth vivid and spouting decapitation, after so many human heads wantonly struck off by the studio's tricksters of special effects and sent spinning slow-motion like Sputniks, I almost stopped paying attention. The images ceased to make their way to that part of my brain where dreams - and presumably, compassion - are conceived...
...hasn't been a great couple of months for Washington's environmental lobby. Bush's new budget was delivered Monday; it cuts roughly $500 million from the EPA's coffers. In addition, the new administration has advocated oil exploration in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge, struck down newly enacted emissions limits for power stations and abandoned updated standards for the amount of arsenic in water. And so, despite assurances from an Interior Department spokesman that Thursday's announcement simply represents a way out from the weight of accumulating citizen lawsuits and "to help us move toward a rational system," Bush...
...Crimson struck back in the bottom of the sixth inning to take the win. Senior Scott Carmack and Llanes started off the rally after Boehle hit them both with pitches. San Salvador then singled to left field to drive in Carmack and send Llanes to second base...