Edgar Renteria hit a grand slam, Manny Ramirez had four singles and the Boston Red Sox stopped a four-game losing streak with 27 hits in a 17-1 victory Saturday over the Yankees at New York.Trot Nixon homered and drove in five runs for the Red Sox, who backed Matt Clement (6-0) with their biggest scoring burst of the year. I see myself growing into that type of player.”*TODAYDODGERS’ DEREK LOWEVS BRAVES’ TIM HUDSONvs. “The Marines don’t collectively bargain over whether they’re going to wind up in Anbar province or Baghdad. officials sought to isolate Iran, demanding that the country’s leaders give up all nuclear ambitions or face action, including possible sanctions from the United Nations Security Council.That approach failed because the administration was unable to gather enough support within the IAEA to refer the case to the council.On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan underscored the administration’s commitment both to the European initiative and to a diplomatic solution of the issue.”We all have a shared goal of making sure Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon,” McClellan told reporters.
Revenue from ads on its partners’ websites jumped 58% to $997 million.Excluding stock option expenses and other one-time items, Google earned $2.49 a share, trouncing the $2.22 predicted by a consensus of analysts polled by Thomson Financial. Saturday* “Curse of the Demon” and “Burn, Witch, Burn”: 7:30 p.m SundayWhere: Lloyd E. Revenue was expected to increase to $1.38 billion.Chief Executive Hector Ruiz introduced higher-value products including the Opteron server chip and Turion laptop processor that have helped AMD gain ground on Intel Corp. and Iraq “staring at the prospect of something substantially worse” than the “gradual, creeping” civil strife that has bloodied the country over the last two-plus years.Diamond isn’t alone in his fears. MEXICO CITY Seeking to cash in on booming Asian exports, Nicaragua will announce a $20-billion proposal next week to build a canal linking the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans that would accommodate ships too large to use the Panama Canal, Nicaraguan officials said Friday.If approved by Nicaragua’s Congress, the project would be a joint public-private venture financed by unnamed investors, said Lindolfo Monjarretz, a spokesman for Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos.The Grand Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal would make use of the 60-mile-wide Lake Nicaragua and follow at least part of a route first proposed by American and European entrepreneurs in the 19th century, officials said.”We will have a deeper draft than the Panama Canal and reach a different market than Panama,” Monjarretz said in a telephone interview “The construction of the canal …
We want to be 1-0 every week.”Standing in the way today is Arizona (2-6 overall, 1-4 in the Pacific 10 Conference), which has lost four in a row against the Bruins (8-0, 5-0).Last year, UCLA trounced Arizona, 37-17, at the Rose Bowl. — the Dow’s weakest performer last year — propelled the index, as did enthusiasm about the outlook for the global economy and expectations that the Federal Reserve was nearly done tightening credit.Although many analysts no longer consider the Dow to be the best barometer for Wall Street, it remains the most popular benchmark.”It’s only 30 stocks, but it’s the one number that most investors look at,” said Edward O’Hara, a financial planner from Silver Spring, Md. He’s helped us by telling us, but a lot of that is overrated too.”After Florida’s 16-7 victory, Tennessee coaches and fans might be debating that for the next year.*Playing on SaturdayThe seeming step backward from the NFL to college isn’t necessarily easy.Former Miami Dolphin coach Dave Wannstedt is 0-3 at Pittsburgh after a 7-6 loss to ex-Raider coach Bill Callahan’s Nebraska team in a game that wasn’t so pretty for the 3-0 Cornhuskers.At South Carolina, Spurrier is 1-2 since returning to the SEC after a brief stay with the Washington Redskins.In 12 years at Florida, Spurrier’s teams lost more than two SEC games only once.After a 37-14 loss to Alabama on the heels of a close loss to Georgia, the Gamecocks are 0-2 in the SEC.”I’m frustrated but not shocked,” Spurrier said “All you got to do is look at the stats. He was very special and maybe unique in crafting books that combined the excitement and commitments of the detective story with social awareness.”Former Times entertainment editor Charles Champlin, in reviewing Lynds’ “Chasing Eights” featuring Fortune in 1990, wrote: “Fortune is less introspective than Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer, the prototypal Santa Barbara operative, but Collins has much the same affectionate sensitivity to the city’s unique look, diversities and unifying ambience.”In reviewing the more recent “Fortune’s World” for The Times, Dick Lochte said: “To spin tales as intriguing and thought-provoking as these for three decades is a remarkable enough achievement.