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...went to the bat mitzvah of the daughter of my childhood friend. My friend said she considered canceling the bat mitzvah because of all the rioting but decided that she would be giving them - the Arabs - a victory. I sat at a table with two friends. The first lives in Givon, past Ramot on the edge of Jerusalem, right near Ramallah. She said that after the lynching, she took her three children and moved in with her mother. She took everything that was valuable to her - photographs and jewelry - because she was afraid the house might get ransacked. It struck...
...Turner herself. Oddly enough, the most engaging part of the opening night performance occured when the sound went out in the first act. When her microphone quit working, Turner did not bat an eyelash. Instead she rolled her eyes and drawled at the audience "Well daaaaaahling, shall we continue?" The ensuing feedback was drowned out by the applause of the enamored audience, and she finished the act without amplification...
First baseman Mark McGwire, with arms bigger than mountains, was 0-for-2 in the series. When LaRussa sent him to bat in Game Two, first base was open and the Mets had sense enough to walk the biggest slugger in baseball since at least Willie McGee...
Credit should be given where credit is due, and the Mets, much like the hitters they sent to bat each inning of the series, are due. Their no-name outfield now has the names of Timo Perez, Benny Agbayani and Jay Payton. Well-adjusted Mike Bordick picked up in Rey Ordonez' shortstop position, even after arriving in Flushing as a late-season carpetbagger...
...death threats in my locker." He dropped out of school at 15, he says, when two classmates tried to run him over with a car. He left Louisiana at 21 after the man behind him in line at a gay bar was struck over the head with a baseball bat. After years of applying makeup to his younger sister and misfit friends ("I figured if I could make them feel beautiful, I wouldn't feel so ugly myself"), he set out for New York City. Within a year, he did his first job for Vogue and soon attracted advocates like...