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Ostler: Giants get aggressive at deadline

Jul. 30, 2009
The Giants pulled off the Big One on Wednesday. "Yeah, we just picked up Michael Vick," manager Bruce Bochy announced as the media filed into his office for its pregame briefing. He's a prankster, that Bochy. What he was doing was diffusing the tension...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler