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Furthermore, why a team like Yale—which will enter its first game with lingering question marks at all of its skill positions—would risk going up against a gun-slinging upstart, to which it could possibly lose, also defies logic. Throw in the fact that many Bulldogs supporters feel that coach Jack Siedlecki should be packing the contents of his desk into cardboard boxes, and you’ve got the makings of a disastrous opener...
...months preceding the intended September visit, a good deal of energy went to waste in squabbles about protocol. China wanted a formal state welcome in Washington, complete with 21-gun salutes and state dinners. Washington hesitated, granting the salute but not the dinner. This was understandably disappointing, as Hu wanted to show that America acknowledges China as an important power, which would have granted him more prestige among his party leadership. Procedural rigmarole, after all, is excellent political fodder. It also spoiled the mood...
...this summer, finally “truly healthy” for the first time, Herrmann—who went 5-1 with a 3.09 ERA last year—was hitting 93 MPH on the radar gun...
...March 1857, Pandey, a soldier in the armies of the British East India Company, the commercial venture of freebooters and merchants that ruled India, attacked his officers and called on his fellow soldiers to join him. He was apparently incensed by the army's new gun cartridges, which were rumored to be coated with the grease of pigs and cows, thereby forcing him to violate his Hindu beliefs. Pandey's putsch failed; he was court-martialed and executed. But the rebellion spread, with soldiers rising up across India and proclaiming an aging Mughal ruler as Emperor. The British brutally...
...small animals-a way for people who were seething anyway to vent their wrath without fear of retribution. I pondered the matter for a few minutes and decided to address it on the website, with special attention to the who?d accused me of being a racist right-wing gun-nut merely because I?d mentioned in a blog that I resided in Montana...