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...same interactive spirit prevailed at the Sunday Brunch, whose audience was much more touristy—two-thirds of it had been imported from the Bronx on a bus tour for the elderly...
After Pedro Martinez pitched the Sox to a 4-2 victory in last Friday’s rain-delayed contest, the Yankees went on to win both of the final two games by a 9-8 score, with each of the victories coming in the Bronx Bombers’ final at-bat of the game...
...weekend, it will take something otherworldly—perhaps some favorable karma from Ted Williams’ ghost or Pedro Martinez acquiring the ability to start every single game or even, dare I say it, a players’ strike—to stop the Curse from allowing the Bronx Bombers to disappoint Red Sox fans once again...
...great turning point, even a kind of epiphany, took place between the ages of 8 and 10. I was able to go every day to the very well stocked Melrose branch of the New York Public Library, not far from where we lived in the Bronx. We spoke Yiddish at home. I had taught myself to read English when I was very small. To this day, my pronunciation is as odd as it is because I learned it through the eye rather than through...
...while waiting in line to buy soap at a grocery store that Newdow, a lifelong atheist born in the Bronx, began his linguistic crusade. Noticing that all his coins and notes had "in God we Trust" written on them, he decided to use his University of Michigan legal training to sue the government for removal of the phrase. After a bit of research, Newdow decided it would be easier to protest the pledge of allegiance by claiming he didn?t want his daughter to say "under God," even though she wasn?t in school at the time. He lost while...