Word: handing
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...leaves with purchase in hand, Humphreys chuckles...
...Americans love to see the drama of head-to-head combat. To satisfy that urge, I advocate having golfers play in teams of three or four with one team trying to get the Titleist in the hole while the other team waits around the green, clubs in hand, to deny such an outcome. Just think of the added dimension of strategy such a change would add (Will Woods' team play Duval's team zone...
...Lazaro Gonzalez had earlier defied a government order to hand the boy over at 2 p.m., declaring that "they will have to take this child from me by force." That marked an apparent shift from earlier in the week, when the standoff appeared set for an imminent end. The leading exile group, the Cuban American National Foundation, appeared Tuesday to have brokered a face-saving deal in which Elian would be reunited with his father at a meeting with Lazaro Gonzalez, but that deal was quickly abandoned later the same day. "Earlier this week it looked as though the foundation...
...which might be tolerable if such laxity in style were not coeval with loose thinking. But for some reason--perhaps its informality, perhaps the ease with which type is edited (making drafts unnecessary)--e-mail seems to demand less refined thinking. Frequent letter writing, on the other hand, makes habit of formal writing and thinking alike...
...That explanation is unlikely to fly either with Juan Miguel Gonzalez or with the Justice Department, which indicated that if the meeting did not happen on Wednesday it would proceed with plans to order Lazaro to hand the boy over at a prescribed time and location. The family meeting had been arranged as it became clear that the Miami family were running out of options, even as they battled to keep legal challenges alive in Florida state and family courts. The family's decision not to go to Washington may have come in response to government spin on the meeting...