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...Eagles' success was starting pitcher Paul Knapic. Despite a shaky start, including three straight walks in the first inning, Knapic effectively neutralized the Crimson lineup with a good combination of off-speed pitches and high heat. Working quickly from the windup, the righthander pitched smartly to avoid bad situations. He threw seven strong innings, striking out a career-high nine while giving up only five hits and one earned run to improve his record...
...videos; how he decided to stop taking his Luvox, to let his anger flare, undiluted by medication. How Klebold's violent essays for English class were like skywriting his intent. If only the parents had looked in the middle drawer of Harris' desk, they would have found the four windup clocks that he later used as timing devices. Check the duffel bag in the closet; the pipe bombs are inside. In his CD collection, they would have found a recording that meant so much to him that he willed it to a girl in his last videotaped suicide message...
Monica who? It seems an eternity since the name of Monica Lewinsky last came up in the nation?s affairs. But on Thursday, Lewinsky, and the whole national ordeal associated with her, resurfaced briefly in a long-in-arriving windup order from the judge who presided over the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright followed up her historic April contempt of court ruling against President Clinton with a monetary sanction against him: $90,686 for having provided false testimony under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in the Jones lawsuit. The money ? minus...
...piece of Bubble Yum, the official gum of Major League Baseball, to chew on the mound. He also drew some diagrams, mostly of a baseball and where the stitches are. "Don't try to be somebody else. Don't try to gun it. Get your own good windup," he advised, until I informed him that I didn't have anyone's windup, including my own. He smiled and turned away...
...Freshman shortstop Mark Mager, who had been holding Yale designated hitter Tony Coyne on second, sprinted away from the bag toward third base as Lennon hit his windup, freezing Coyne. Second baseman Faiz Shakir slipped in behind Coyne, and Lennon wheeled around and promptly picked him off second...