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...million to keep them. We couldn't do it." So these days, Bonilla is a Met; Smiley hurls for the Cincinnati Reds; Drabek has jumped to his hometown team, the Houston Astros; and Bonds is a Giant, in both team and contract size. But don't hang the skull and crossbones at half-staff for the Pirates quite yet. "No one or two players can replace Bonds or Drabek," Simmons conceded. "But 25 men can. Baseball history is replete with the truth that this is a team sport...
...impulsive action ensures Jefferson a date with Gruesome Gerty, the state's portable electric chair, even though his lawyer argues that the accused is incapable of premeditating a murder. "No, gentlemen, this skull here holds no plans," the defense claims. "What you see here is a thing . . . to hold the handle of a plow, a thing to load your bales of cotton, a thing to dig your ditches, to chop your wood, to pull your corn." In effect, Jefferson is not condemned to die like a man but be destroyed like a beast. Worse still, he believes that...
Jack Willis is heart-wrenching as the younger brother, Aston, who tells the story of the doctors who "put the pincers" on his skull so that he couldn't...get...[his] thoughts...together...
...BEEN A BAD SPELL IN THE MIDST OF A BAD SEAson. Gunmen shot an Israeli couple in their automobile last Sunday, injuring both; the next day stone throwers who hit a car fractured the skull of an infant passenger. At a Jerusalem bus stop on the same day, an assailant believed to be Palestinian stabbed a man to death and injured a woman before fleeing. Israeli soldiers shot and killed five Palestinians last week, for a total of 18 this month. The blood swapping comes amid tensions over the deportation in December of about 400 Palestinians as well...
Stunned by a skull fracture, blinded by blood flowing down his forehead, his hands scorched, McFarlane at first tried to carry Williams, whose jaw and both legs were broken. "I was dazed from the impact and I was too weak to carry him, so I just kept running," said McFarlane. "I felt pretty guilty. I was very glad he made it." When rescuers finally reached the four survivors two hours later, they found Williams' backpack, altimeter and sunglasses melted and $6,000 in traveler's checks burned in his pocket. Somehow he was alive...