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...season, but already the list of injured players is growing. Both New York quarterbacks - Eli Manning of the Giants and Chad Pennington of the Jets - may miss games because of shoulder and ankle injuries, respectively. Orlando Pace, the all-pro offensive lineman from the St. Louis Rams, tore the labrum and rotator cuff in his right shoulder. He will miss the season. A steady stream of injuries marred Cincinnati's thrilling 27-20 win over the Baltimore Ravens Monday night: about a dozen Ravens visited the team doctor Tuesday morning for treatment...
...joke and to agree with its political thrust. For example, the audiences for The Daily Show and Colbert, are part of the shows' (basically left-wing) Us, laughing at the (basically right-wing) Them who are the butts of the jokes. WWN recognized no such niceties. It tore down that wall. It ripped not just at the goofiness of pop culture but at its own readers' prurience and gullibility. ("Redneck Vampire Attacks Trailer Park.") The main audience for this satire was not those who might laugh at it but those who might take it as true. "It is my belief...
When a bomb exploded at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, security guard Richard Jewell helped evacuate the area and was hailed as a hero. Days later the FBI leaked his name as its primary suspect. The media savaged him; FBI agents tore through the home he shared with his mother and ripped family photos. After investigators exonerated Jewell that year, he sued and settled with NBC and other media and got a rare apology from AG Janet Reno. In 2005, Eric Rudolph confessed to the attack. Jewell died, apparently of natural causes, at his Georgia home...
...front, and the commentator was screaming: 'Another Color is coming up! Another Color is taking the lead! Another Color can't be caught! Another Color is winning!' To hear those words, to see what was happening - the black people in the crowd almost tore up the track. It was a riot. It was one of the most exciting days in my life...
...bomb tore through a police academy bus in central Kabul this morning, in another disturbing reflection in Afghanistan of the early insurgent activities that eventually threw Iraq into bloody instability. The attack appears to have expressly targeted Afghanistan's fledgling police force, killing 35 police instructors, police officers and civilians and wounding more than 50, including two Japanese civilians and one Korean. The attack is the worst Kabul has seen since the fall of the Taliban...