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...World Series the Red Sox have won since 1918 now? Can someone please tell you what the Red Sox are in the public consciousness, if they are no longer the Yankees’ tragically embittered, totally luckless rivals? What they are if not just another team that has improbably beaten the Yankees once in their organization’s history—but, of course, is still nowhere near the 26-time World Champions? Nowhere near the best franchise in professional sports...
...look no further than the 17 short stories of Tim Winton's The Turning (Picador; 317 pages). In this trailer park of a collection, characters move from the suburbs to the coast and back again, serial sea-changers in a state of transcontinental drift. There's caravan dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father is laid off from the local meatworks (Cockleshell). But most of all there's policeman...
Having already been beaten in three sports on Saturday, the Cornell men’s soccer team seemed determined to ensure a clean sweep for Harvard if the Crimson wasn’t up to the task, accounting for two own-goals and an assist on a third in Harvard?...
Departing Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, famous for her reticence, stayed true to form in her last days in office. Despite official confirmation that rival Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had beaten her by a whopping 20 percentage points in September's runoff vote, the 57-year-old has remained largely silent on the subject. "Whoever has been chosen, we must graciously accept it," she said in an Armed Forces Day address on Oct. 5. But that was as close as she came to acknowledging defeat?and the President seemed to be having trouble following her own advice. Although Yudhoyono was seated nearby...
They knew their man had been beaten, and on his home turf. Not on foreign policy. And certainly not on substance--Kerry's arguments against Bush's policies, especially on an Iraq exit strategy, were nearly as thin as the President's defense of them. No, Kerry won the debate on Bush's favorite intangible: the appearance of strength. The President, who was so comfortable through three debates against Al Gore, appeared "annoyed," as Fox News's Brit Hume put it. Actually, it was worse than that: Bush seemed the lesser man. Kerry stood ramrod straight and preternaturally calm. Bush...