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They named a candy bar for Babe Ruth and a disease for Lou Gehrig. Ted Williams they just called names. Officially he was the Kid, the Splendid Splinter, Thumper, but the best ballplayer to make Boston his home received less flattering sobriquets from Red Sox fans at Fenway Park. That's what you get for refusing to tip your hat after a home...
...find true greatness, you must apply the "next guy" test. Then the clouds part and the deities appear. In 1921 Babe Ruth hit 59 home runs. The next four hit 24, 24, 23 and 23. Ruth alone hit more home runs than half the teams in the major leagues...
...planning can get intricate. But baseball aficionados wouldn't trade their road trips for anything. "Seeing the monuments to greats like [Babe] Ruth and [Lou] Gehrig at Yankee Stadium is a slice of history at its very, very best," Salomon says. "Couple this with the freedom to get in my car and leave when I want to, and I have the perfect vacation...
...times a whimsical depiction of little wars (neighbors tossing garbage on each other's lawns), the movie escalates to fire bombs in residences and comic battles at Israeli checkpoints. A balloon with Yasser Arafat's face on it floats above the soldiers; a Palestinian ninja babe beats the enemy with her Yeoh-worthy maneuvers. With its smart humor, as dry as the Negev, this is a film that might raise a chuckle even from Ariel Sharon. Give irony a chance...
...voting the straight anti-anti-Semitic ticket in the recent election. Then Cannes presented its first-ever Palestinian film in competition: Elia Suleiman's monstrously witty Divine Intervention, in which a balloon with Yasser Arafat's face on it floats across an Israeli military checkpoint, and a Palestinian Ninja babe beats the enemy with maneuvers worthy of Hong Kong martial madame Michelle Yeoh (a member of this year's Jury). At the closing ceremony, Suleiman won a Jury prize: third place. Other awards went to Cannes familiars in good form: a Grand Prix (second place) to Aki Kaurismaki...