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Sure, they're ordinary citizens like us, just average folks participating in government. On the other hand, they are the kind of people who can tell the candidate they're endorsing, "Just a sec, babe, Spielberg has me on call waiting." Here are some of the celebrities who endorsed candidates this year, and how their endorsees fared...
...they weren't surprised when Arafat balked. The Americans felt they had heard enough--in fact, more than enough--to craft a full package. Sandy Berger, the President's National Security Adviser, had heard so much repetition that he started carrying around the lyrics to I Got You Babe, the song from the movie Groundhog Day--whose hero must relive the same 24 hours over and over. (Clinton tried to explain the joke to Arafat, but it didn't translate.) It was time to force Netanyahu to focus on the security problems, the President decided. Over dinner, he pushed Netanyahu...
...from-behind victories and a league record 114 wins in the regular season, with a .714 winning percentage. Then in the play-offs, facing better teams, they improved, at 11-2, to an .846 winning percentage. This team can find competition only from earlier Yankees: in 1936-39, or Babe Ruth's 1927 squad. But those teams were whites-only, shielded from the dominant players of the Negro Leagues; today's players comprise the best of the entire world: blacks, Hispanics, Japanese pitchers who can't speak English, the entire Dominican Republic. Athletes are paddling over in rafts...
This year's champions were not really Yankees. Yankees are Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Reggie Jackson. Yankees are guys who like nothing better than hitting home runs, except for talking about hitting home runs. Yankees don't understand strategy because they're too good, too lazy and too drunk to bother. Yankees don't steal bases, paint the corners or run out routine grounders. And Yankees never, ever avoid the media. Of his team, Torre says, "They all want to get the game-winning hit, but they don't want to talk about it." These aren't Yankees. These...
...CUBS: The only team ever to have won more regular-season games than this year's Yankees (116), and they did it in a shorter season. But the game played by the Cubs of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance--the game everyone played until Babe Ruth came along--was a rough scramble for runs made of walks, bunts, stolen bases and singles. The Cubs' top power hitter, Wildfire Schulte, managed all of seven home runs, typical for the era. If a club like this one had to play the highly evolved 1998 version of the game, it would be bashed...