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Most Inspirational: Left a cushy research position at HMS to open a medical practice for low-income Bronx residents...
Aren’t you sick of this? And I’m not just talking to the Indians, Mariners and A’s fans out there, who watch their teams lose year after year to the Bronx Bombers in the postseason. I’m talking to the Royals fans out there, the Tigers fans, the Blue Jays supporters. I’m talking to the Expos faithful who see the Braves win their division every single year, and the Pirates fans who have had to adjust to residence in the cellar while their best players book World...
Dean, a native of New York, of course denied any connection to the Bronx Bombers. After all, who would want to root for the Microsoft of the American League? They’re big, they’re rich and most of the developed world hates them. Indeed, the anti-Bush agitator, showing remarkable taste (or, alternatively, fearing for his skin while campaigning in New Hampshire—Red Sox territory), insisted that he was a Sox fan and that he always supported the “under...
...Then, in the first game of the American League Championship Series, they clobbered three home runs past the Yankees’ impotent attempt at defense, issuing a painful body slam to inflated Yankee egos everywhere. The Yankees did manage to fight back last night at home, in their palatial Bronx nest. But, with troopers such as Johnny Damon, who will continue to play despite taking a devastating blow to the head while running after a fly ball in Oakland, and Nomar Garciaparra, who still got the out after Damon and Damian Jackson hit the ground, the Sox will undoubtedly destroy...
PS/MS 279, a school in the Bronx, is on New York City's list of schools "in need of improvement." Only 19% of its students meet state standards in reading. So when Kenia Olivero heard that President Bush had signed an education law that promises students the right to transfer from failing schools, she began to investigate what she could do for her son Kendrick, who was behind in his reading skills. She discovered that fewer than one-third of the students who requested transfers from low-scoring New York City schools actually got them last year. The good schools...