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...Spiderman? " as they jumped around their bedroom with their wrists extended, leaping nimbly from web to web. As for most seven year olds, being a superhero was an important and consuming undertaking. My sons wore their bath towels as capes, referred to the basement as the Bat Cave, and had even gone so far as to rename the ice cream parlor with 32 flavors " Batman and Robins' ." So I knew that skipping Spiderman would be a challenge, but the voice of the developmental pediatrician who lectured during my residency kept me strong, "Rules give children boundaries and when they have...
BARRY BONDS needs only seven more home runs to surpass Babe Ruth's career total of 714. But this season the San Francisco Giant will bat to some boos, since a new book detailing the surly slugger's alleged steroid abuse is scheduled to hit stores in time for opening day. In Game of Shadows, two San Francisco Chronicle reporters write that Bonds, 41, first tried performance-enhancing drugs in 1998 out of jealousy toward heavier hitters Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Bonds has denied knowingly using steroids, and his lawyer questions the book's credibility. But baseball commissioner...
...Khalilzad hasn't been able to make the good feelings last. Each side wants him to go to bat for it but suspects him of secretly playing for the other team. "They see everything very much in a zero-sum way," Khalilzad says. That he is of mixed parentage--his late father was a Sunni, his late mother a Shi'ite--doesn't automatically make him a neutral in the eyes of Iraqi politicians. As a representative of the country that smashed the Sunnis' stranglehold on power, he worked hard to overcome their suspicion, only to find himself...
...Harvard is turning down thousands of kids who have super test scores, so if a kid has 150 more points on the SAT, I don’t think Bill Fitzsimmons will bat an eyelash,” Reider said...
...With Florida, they’re looking to win and get things turned around for them,” Walsh said. “They have a couple guys out of their lineup who we might not see. You take [LaPorta’s] bat out of any lineup, it’s going to hurt...