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...often show that conventional baseball statistics aren't as important as they appear. In the book, you write "every year that passes, the ERA (Earned Run Average) becomes a little more irrelevant." Why is that...
...alone. In many U.S. election seasons, the rest of the world doesn't pay much attention to the strange hoopla until the two main candidates have emerged. Costly state-by-state elections to determine presidential nominees can appear like charming overkill, as if the U.S. is trying too hard to show the world what democracy should really look like. But this time is different. From Paris to Karachi, Canada to Turkey, interest in this U.S. election season began months ago. Libraries of new books on American politics and political figures have been flying off the shelves in Japan and Italy...
...stripping the Jew of what made him a citizen in the world." Out of gratitude for French help in restoring their stolen art, the Rothschilds donated the de Hooch painting to the Louvre in 1974, and gave the Israel Museum several family portraits, which also appear in the show...
...there were more prosaic, political things working to Clinton's advantage as well. Tiny fissures were beginning to appear in Obama's shining armor. I thought he won the Texas and Ohio debates with his elegant counterpunching and cool demeanor, but I was wrong: Clinton's policy details - her specificity and passion on health insurance during the 16-min. volley with Obama that was later, foolishly, derided by the media - apparently conveyed a degree of caring and preparation that seemed more reliable than her opponent's shiny intellect and rhetoric. On the ground in Texas and Ohio, she began...
...Clinton's supporters stood for hours in a dimly-lit hall in downtown Columbus, waiting quietly for their candidate to appear. The last two weeks had taken their toll. Senator Barack Obama had drawn closer to Clinton in the polls, and a number of Clinton's longtime allies were calling on her to quit the race. "We've all been a little worried, honestly," said Sherry Pickens, 49, a postal worker from Pataskala, Ohio who has volunteered to work phone banks for Clinton the last few weeks. "Around the campaign office, it really felt like we hit a low point...