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This week's issue of Sports Illustrated contains excerpts from Pete Rose's new book My Prison Without Bars, in which he admits for the first time publicly that he bet on baseball. Here's what people are saying...
...actually called "Welcome to the Boom Boom Room." It's just hard not to think of it that way, and not only because so many of Currin's paintings are of women with breasts so large you want to yodel from one to the next. (It's a safe bet that he's the only painter of note ever to rate a review in Juggs magazine. A rave, of course.) But there's another kind of boom boom that Currin also brings to mind these days. It's the steady pounding of hype. At 41, with a measure of talent...
...just a few points behind the formerly formidable John Kerry, although both men trailed Howard Dean by 30 points. The Clark presidential "success strategy"--to use one of his favorite phrases--proceeds something like this: He supplants Kerry as No. 2 in New Hampshire. The race tightens--a good bet, since 20% are still undecided and New Hampshire voters love last-minute political melodrama. Clark finishes better than expected, then surpasses Dean on Feb. 3, when the race moves to more amenable turf for a moderate: South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arizona, North Dakota and others. John Edwards and Joe Lieberman have...
...President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's National Security Adviser, Roilo Golez, emphatically denies that 600 JI members are present in the Philippines. "That's wrong," he tells TIME. "Very, very wrong. I can bet my future, my career and my life that it's not true." The government has made similar assertions in the past. Arroyo herself denied for months that the JI problem was serious. Then in an about-face in November, she announced that her administration now regards JI as the country's biggest national security threat...
...chivalry is that it is reserved for only certain moments, and in others, pure condescension and arrogance take over. In the transcript of his talk, Mansfield wonders how many assaults happened at Harvard when he was here as an undergraduate. Although I’m willing to bet the actual numbers are shocking, I’m sure Mansfield imagines there were hardly any among Harvard’s “gentlemen...