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Opponents and teammates alike hold Ripken in the same awe in which he holds Gehrig. Says the Toronto Blue Jays' veteran designated hitter Paul Molitor: "As someone who has spent a few years of my life on the disabled list, I can tell you that what Cal has done and is still doing is beyond my comprehension. He plays the second toughest position on the field every day, often on artificial turf, sometimes in day games after night games, sometimes after flying all night. He's still a dangerous hitter, still the most reliable shortstop out there...
...apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. Though Begelman was president of Columbia Pictures during a flush period in the '70s (his tenure produced hits like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Shampoo), he risked it all by becoming a check forger. Yet such was Hollywood's awe of his golden touch that Begelman's career barely suffered when his larceny was revealed. His most recent venture, Gladden Entertainment, went bankrupt last year, and Begelman was reported to be deeply depressed by the failure--a transgression, after all, that his peers take more seriously than forgery...
...meter. This movement produced a new but equally otherwordly sound bolstered by the BSO's surprisingly powerful (in this instance) brass section. The net effect of the symphony, as full of fresh ideas today as it must have seemed in 1959, was not bemusement but rather awe and fascination...
History may not look back on Spudstock '95 with awe. In fact, it may not look back...
...decade later, after a stint at the Washington Star, Stacks was news editor of our Washington bureau during the Watergate investigation. His colleagues of those days remember his savvy and energy with awe. "He had the ability to track every twist of the story without losing the thread,'' says contributor Bonnie Angelo. "He knew what was major right away...