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...relief pitcher probably was tougher in his day. In 1975, a year in which he led the American League with 26 saves, Gossage pitched 142 innings. Thirty years later, Bob Wickman shared the lead with 45 saves, pitching just 62 innings. That's half the work, double the reward. But it's a stretch to say that today's chiseled, athletic players are inferior to yesterday's stars. "Laughable," says Miami Herald sports columnist Dan Le Batard, 37. "What, anywhere in society, was better 25 years ago? You're using better training methods and previous education. And there...
...plate private fund raiser for Senator Rick Santorum last week in Sewickley Heights, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Santorum posed for photos with the President at the airport and leaned into a smiling handshake with political guru Karl Rove. But it was telling that Santorum, who is trailing state treasurer Bob Casey by 10 points in the latest polls, scheduled no public appearances with Bush. When Cheney flew to Newark, N.J., earlier in the week to raise nearly $400,000 that state senator Tom Kean Jr. badly needs in his bid for the U.S. Senate, the candidate didn't show...
...Meryl Streep seemed to enjoy giving Altman his Oscar. All we wanted to do was not humiliate ourselves. And to make Bob laugh. My partner, Jane, wrote most of that text...
...Lindsay Lohan fit in with you and Meryl on the Prairie Home Companion set? Meryl mothered her. If she came late, Meryl told her, "This is Bob Altman. You have to give him the respect he deserves." When Meryl and I would walk to the set, there would be teenagers prostrate on the sidewalk chanting "Lindsay! Lindsay!" We would have to kick them to the side. I'd point to Meryl and say, "Do you know who this...
...share the power that they have gained since Saddam's overthrow, and the Sunnis refuse to accept minority status in the new government. If dissolving the former Soviet empire and breaking up its satellite states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia made sense, why doesn't separation make sense for Iraq? Bob Mason St. Albert, Canada...