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...what a game. Four years ago, Burns managed to tell the story of America's bloodiest, most traumatic war in 11 1/2 hours. His account of our favorite sport takes up more than 18. It is not just a history of the game -- from Ty Cobb's vicious slides to Bob Gibson's fast ball, from Babe Ruth's records to Red Sox heartbreaks -- but also a slice of Americana that spans 150 years. The series covers the impact of the Depression and two World Wars; player-owner conflicts that go back more than a century (the reserve clause that...
...body laced with signs of a ferocious struggle and 22 knife wounds. It was the neighborhood dogs that sounded the alarm, their paws spreading a bloody mosaic on the sidewalk around the house. One of the first cops on the scene, a longtime veteran, said, "It was the bloodiest crime scene I have ever seen...
...bloodiest eruption of violence in years, hundreds of thousands have died or fled from the carnage in Central Africa. Is this the face of wars to come...
...elections and to hold out for autonomy from the national government. Rival African National Congress head Nelson Mandela endorsed De Klerk's move. Earlier in the week, a march past A.N.C. headquarters in downtown Johannesburg by members of Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party turned into one of the bloodiest battles in the city's history; on Saturday suspected Zulu nationalists attacked a church in a Natal A.N.C. stronghold, killing three...
America has a pantheon of ghouls, where the bloodiest of villainies earns an assurance of immortality. And now there are two more candidates for this hellish hall of fame...