The Chicago Cubs, lovingly known as the “Lovable losers”, due to their long championship drought, are rapidly gaining confidence as they win game after game. "You start winning baseball games, and you expect to win them," Manager Lou Piniella said before they won 7-1 over St. Louis last Wednesday at Busch Stadium. I hope they'd get the championship this year. cubs tickets will sell very well and it will be a fitting end for theold owners and a great start for the incoming. The owners are reported to be selling the team after the 2007 championship season.
One of the most moving speeches that I've read. During grade school, this was the most often recited elocution piece in my school. Here it is, the text of Raul Manglapus' Land of Bondage, Land of the Free. Land of Bondage, Land of the Free By Raul Manglapus And yet, ladies and gentlemen, the tao is constitutionally free! No wonder, then, that the tao being a slave has acquired the habits of a slave. No wonder that after three centuries in chains, without freedom, without hope, he should lose the erect and fearless posture of a freeman, and become the bent, misshapen, indolent, vicious, pitiful thing that he is! Who dares accuse him now? Who dares rise up in judgement against this man, reduced to this subhuman level by three centuries of oppession? Ladies and gentlemen the tao does not come here tonight to be judged -- but to judge! Hear then his accusation and his sentence: I indict the Spanish encomendero for inventing taxes impossible to pay! I indict the usurer for s...
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