Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Halberstam's engaging account of the 1949 season proves both these mythic profiles to be absolutely accurate. That year the pennant race between the two teams came down to the very last game. Of course the Sox lost it. They had done the same thing against the Cleveland Indians in a sudden-death playoff game the year before. Both teams were hobbled by injuries. But the Yankees had the poise and power...
...proud, remote athlete. DiMaggio does not need a writer to confirm his stature, but still he is lucky to have such a thoughtful, intelligent chronicler. Boston had its own superstar in Ted Williams, and that brings up the inevitable comparison between Halberstam's work and John Updike's classic account of Williams' last game, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu." Nearly 30 years later, Updike's achievement seems as secure as Williams' 1941 batting mark of .406. He turns out to be the better writer, even the tougher reporter. But readers who want to savor a memoir of two outsize ball...
Gorbacnev, based on his spokesperson's account, appeared to describe the pro-democracy demonstrators as "hotheads...
...Somerset Maugham set his famous confrontation between the missionary and Sadie Thompson. Or that discussions of Samoa's moral -- and cultural -- identity continue as heatedly as the much publicized debate between Margaret Mead's classic vision of pastoral innocence (Coming of Age in Samoa) and Derek Freeman's revisionist account of violence and rape (Margaret Mead and Samoa -- The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth). "Being bilingual and bicultural doesn't mean you have to be schizophrenic," says Bernie Oordt, who taught at a local high school for twelve years. "As long as you have a basic bedrock...
...broader issue of rationing, many opponents argue that the new Oregon and Alameda County regulations are inherently unfair, since the limits on health-care protection apply only to the poor, particularly the young. Dr. Sam Flint, a director of the American Academy of Pediatrics, notes that children account for roughly 50% of the Medicaid population but receive only about one-fifth of health-care dollars. Meanwhile, the elderly get about 40% of those funds...