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...Number of American Idol contestants for whom incorrect phone numbers were displayed moments before viewers started dialing in. All of Tuesday's votes had to be thrown out, and a revote was held the next night...
...would have been disappointed, and perhaps even slightly frightened. There was no discussion of Social Security or foreign policy being shown that day. Instead, a long and protracted cross-examination of several unwitting targets was being conducted, targets whose defensive replies did nothing to soften the inflammatory questions being thrown at them from indignant congressmen...
Spread across a manicured football field in groups of 10 or so, the children dart back and forth like the parts of a complex machine. In one group, they mark balls thrown in the air by Aussie Rules players from the St. Kilda Football Club. In another, they awkwardly practice handballing to the veteran players. They smack into tackling bags, play bullrush, and try to evade the tackles of lurking Saints. And they learn how to scoop balls off the turf and kick short into the muscled arms of two-time Brownlow medalist Robert Harvey...
Fifteen-hundred dead because of what you did!” This and other jeers were thrown at Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith ’75 as he spoke at an Institute of Politics (IOP) Forum on March 3. The contentious nature at the Forum was not at all surprising given that Feith was defending the war in Iraq, and he was undoubtedly prepared for this. But the heckling Feith received from some audience members went beyond asking tough questions and showed a complete lack of decorum. Such behavior is simply unacceptable...
...middle frame allowed several offenders on both sides to go unpunished, despite their egregious infractions, as play spiraled out of control. At times, minor tussles that did not draw a whistle from referee Dan Murphy escalated into all-out wrestling matches, with helmets torn off, headlocks employed, and punches thrown as play continued away from the scuffle...