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Castellanos allowed six hits and four walks in five and third innings, fanning only one. The loss sunk his record to 4-4 on the season...
...staff shakeup or cabinet shuffle as a way of digging out of trouble. And George W. Bush is in trouble - his polls continue to hover in the mid-30s (although that's not bad compared to the GOP-controlled Congress, which, in one poll released this week, has sunk to a 23% approval rating.) After his famed "malaise" speech in 1979, in which he said the country was going through a "crisis of confidence," President Jimmy Carter offed his secretaries of Treasury and Health Education and Welfare. Ronald Reagan famously reshuffled his White House staff after the Iran-Contra affair...
...Paik is somewhat exceptional as an online poker player at Harvard, first because he was able to quit and second because he never sunk into the red during his online poker years. Other students have not been as lucky, and College administrators are starting to worry that online poker’s increasing popularity might have a detrimental effect on both the students who play and on those around them...
...more than three years, Anna Feng didn't tell her husband that she had sunk nearly half of their savings into the Shanghai stock market. While he thought all their money was safely sitting in a bank, the value of the stocks plunged by almost 75%. But over the past couple of months, the Shanghai market has shown signs of life, and Feng, a 56-year-old retiree, has recouped half her losses. She's quietly hopeful that maybe she'll make it all back. "Everyone seems to be so optimistic about the markets now," she says...
...that seem to form a series. In The Crucifixion with Two Mourners there are no clear outlines: shadowy figures emerge. In The Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John, the crouching woman appears to have three disproportionate arms, and her features are smudged out. Christ's blurred face, sunk between his shoulders, seems to be turned in his mother's direction, but it's as hard to read as a Rorschach inkblot test. His right hand is extended, as if giving up; his left is clenched, still fighting. In the last version his head is hanging, his mother and friend...