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...order to help boost ratings, baseball pushed back the start of this year's World Series to October 24, so the opening game could begin on a Wednesday instead of the usual Saturday start. The rationale is simple: More people are home watching prime-time television during the week, so why not play five of a possible seven games, instead of just three, on those days? "All the commissioner [Bud Selig] wants is to make sure baseball is viewed by as many people as possible," says Jimmie Lee Solomon, the executive vice president of baseball operations for Major League Baseball...
Befuddled by the crush of developments and not trusting the JAM, yet curious to see what would happen next, the local American commander sent his men out on night and early morning patrols to the Haswah area as usual, even amid radio reports that the main routes were laden with freshly planted EFPs and that at least 1,000 JAM reinforcements were on their way down from Baghdad's Sadr City, the massive JAM stronghold in the capital. The Americans knew whom they would apprehend in the event of a JAM attack: the lead JAM sheik in the negotiation said...
...retired NFL lineman. None of the staff had ever heard of him, nor had I, but some of our patients had recognized him and were chatting him up - the buzz in the waiting room was palpable. In the glow of the football player's celebrity, our patients' usual cranky impatience - while waiting for X rays, cast changes, insurance calls, paperwork or simply their turn to be seen - had evaporated , eclipsed that afternoon by sheer delight...
...Videotape” battling the martial polyrhythms of looped percussion tracks. On “Jigsaw Falling into Place,” Yorke sings, “What’s the use of instruments? / Words are a sawed-off shotgun.” There’s the usual amount of vocal retouching, but his spare lyrics are more point-blank then they have been in recent memory. They’re almost unfailingly ambiguous, yet they get deep beneath the skin—at least ours, if not his.“Weird Fish/Arpeggi” features...
...cursor over Win’s face—words in spidery font form in puffs of black smoke. Though these extras can be distracting, viewers might actually appreciate the music once they get past the initial “Coooool!” The band’s usual hurdy-gurdies, French horns, and mandolins have all been left at home. This song, like the rest of the album, was recorded in a church and the setting seems to have rubbed off on its eerie apocalyptic and religious lyrics. Three years went by between the band?...