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...opponent, Housman dribbled in with the right hand, gave several quick stutter-steps and pulled up from behind the arc. After the long jumper found the bottom of the net, the 1,298 fans in attendance started filing for the exits.“I was looking to drive the whole time,” Housman said. “But he [Powell] kept backing away, because his coaches must have told him ‘don’t let him drive,’ don’t let him drive...
...were ready to shell out tens of millions for Matsuzaka. He is just the latest and most desperate example of baseball’s free market run amok. Teams are all too willing to turn out their pockets thanks to power-agents like Boras, whose whole job is to drive a wedge between competing teams and then exploit their blood feud. A plague on both their houses...
...United States is almost alone in the world with its high MLDA. As has been seen, however, America would not respond well to foreign countries’ rules after forging a drinking culture based on limiting drinking to 21 and over. For one, Americans drive more and therefore suffer more consequences from drunk driving. For another, the rest of the world may actually have evolved higher physiological tolerances for alcohol, an effect that Americans cannot hope to duplicate overnight. Finally, research shows that European countries, at least, do actually have an alcohol problem: Europe, as a whole, consumes far more...
...myth - albeit a Zionist one - with which I was fed growing up: that Israel's Jewish majority was ensured when hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs had "miraculously" chosen to up and leave their homes in 1948, answering the call by Arab leaders promising that they would come and drive out the Jews. No, the Palestinians in many parts of what became Israel fled in fear for their lives. And the reason tens of thousands of Jews had arrived from Europe willing to fight by any means necessary to stay there was that they had nowhere else...
...home city’s education system. Next year, Urzua will return to LA with Teach for America. But she may have an ulterior motive for returning to her urban California home. “You could ask me anytime of the day, I always want to drive. I love driving.” But despite her many accomplishments, Urzua hasn’t mastered the rules of the road. “Mirla once drove over the cement dividers in a Denny’s parking lot,” said long-time friend Glenda M. Aldana...