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...hadn’t swung a bat in seven months,” she says. “They don’t even have baseball gloves there...
Like most Texas boys, Hendricks swung his first bat soon after he said his first word. Little Trey was only two-years-old when he became captivated with his high-school age neighbors playing catch regularly in the yard nearby...
...wars move according to their own tempo; war plans, military men often say, are made to bebroken, good only until the first bombs are dropped and the real fighting begins. At the White House and inside the allied war rooms, the mood swung from hopeful expectation, with signs that the Iraqi regime may have been decapitated, to admonishing sobriety on Saturday, as U.S. soldiers encountered significant enemy fire outside southern Iraqi cities and on the road to Baghdad. "There's no cheering or high-fiving whatsoever," said a senior White House aide. "This is not a cakewalk...
...start of the second brought the promise of a 4:44 BU power play. It looked like that stretch would be the crucial part of the game, as the Terriers had a chance to bury Harvard. When the Crimson managed to kill off that extended man-advantage, the momentum swung toward Harvard...
...setback posed by the fighting in Basra may be more political than military. U.S. frontline forces had bypassed Basra and swung north for Baghdad, leaving the British to take possession of a city where coalition commanders had hoped they would be welcomed. After all, the predominantly Shiite population of Iraq's third largest city had led the 1991 revolt against Saddam, and a whole Iraqi division deployed to defend it had surrendered. The spectacle of coalition forces being welcomed without a fight would certainly have helped PR efforts to counter mounting Arab and Muslim hostility to the war. Instead, resistance...