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...ties than most potential questioners: CBS News Correspondent Diane Sawyer worked for Richard Nixon at the White House and after he resigned, and Baltimore Sun Reporter Fred Barnes writes a column for the conservative monthly American Spectator. A fourth seat was offered to two New York Times reporters, Gerald Boyd and Hedrick Smith, who refused because they disapproved of the extensive vetoes. The Times's Washington editor, William Kovach, announced that the newspaper would boycott further debates this year: "We cannot encourage a process that has a political saliva test administered by candidates. We all know where that leads...
Doyle Alexander (17-5) gave up four runs on four hits, including Mike Easler's two-run homer in the second inning. Alexander struck out seven and walked one. Boston starter Dennis Boyd (12-11) took the loss...
...Blue Jays added a run in the sixth on Boyd's bases loaded balk, and Bell's seventh inning homer, his 26th, made...
Elsewhere, Boyd chooses to speak in the flat tones of people who seem quite foreign to him: the California pieces feel as if they have been patched together from David Hockney prints, late-night movies and a dictionary of American slang. Their sudden, destructive conclusions ultimately seem less forceful than forced...
...best tales, however, Boyd places a safe comic distance between himself and his protagonists. Two stories involve the return of the indestructible Leafy, still itching, still conniving, still cursing with undiminished gusto. The others feature like-minded louts stranded in such all-male preserves as Army barracks and boarding schools. At the beginning of the finest of them, Hardly Ever, an adolescent notes gloomily that his rugby teammates are "asthmatics, fatsos, spastics every one" and forlornly lusts after the heroine in The Rape of the Lock. By the end, he is chastely wooing a schoolgirl, while maddening his chums with...