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...next to an ardent Bosox fan. You'll hear stories of the 1967 squad with Lonborg and Yazstremski, the 1975 squad with Fisk, Lynn, Tiant and pinch-hitter extraordinaire Bernie Carbo and the 1986 squad with Clemens, Boggs, Evans and Barrett...
What politics he had were the product of his native Niagara Falls, New York, a largely blue collar town known less as a conservative hotbed than as a vacation site and source of gift shop kitsch. Through his father, an ardent Democrat who works in the state's department of labor, Granieri absorbed a suspicion of Republican politics. "When Ronald Reagan was elected president," says the younger Granieri, "I was under the impression it would be the end of the world. My father hated...
...ardent New York Mets fan, Mandery also enjoys betting on horse and dog races. Friends say that he is just as interested in the science of betting as he is with the actual wager. "I like thinking numerically," Mandery says. "I like anything that pretends to be a science...
...Reverend Jesse Jackson's speech at the IOP Forum. Buried deep in the article was the fact that Jackson, despite the anti-ROTC protest outside the IOP, gave his support to the presence of ROTC units of college campuses. One would think that the fact that Jackson, an ardent liberal and champion of homosexual rights, held such a view would merit greater attention. Come on guys, if he had come out against ROTC, you certainly would have run yet another blaring headline such as "Jackson Rips ROTC" or "Jackson Condemns Homophobic Military...
...either. The most searing experience of his life occurred over two days in November 1917, when he was captured by the Turks and beaten and raped before he escaped. In 1919, submitting a report of this event to British authorities in Cairo, Lawrence altered key details: "Hajim was an ardent paederast and took a fancy to me. So he kept me under guard till night, and then tried to have me. I was unwilling, and prevailed after some difficulty." Years later, he wrote a rather different description to George Bernard Shaw's wife Charlotte, the correspondent with whom he ultimately...