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...that is you can be heroic in one minute, perjurious in the next, depending on what your goals are," says David Lewis, the lawyer for a 1993 World Trade Center bombing defendant. Still, defense lawyers say Sept. 11's impact may not be all bad. Robin Steinberg, director of Bronx Defenders, a New York public-defender office, says world terrorism may make jurors question if it makes sense to devote so much energy to petty crime. She worries that cops testifying against her clients may benefit from extra goodwill, but she says it could be worse. "If it were fire...
...wins bore the hallmarks of vintage Bronx Bombers, with the Yanks clubbing opponents with their big sticks in the late innings, what used to be known as Five O?Clock Lightening in the days of daytime baseball. Yet the Diamondbacks could have easily won it all in New York. Their starting pitching has been outstanding - holding the Yanks batters under .200 as a team. In Game 1 in Phoenix, Curt Schilling paralyzed the Yankees with a combination of power and placement, and the Snakes quickly chased the Moose, Mike Mussina, en route to a 9-1 clubbing. In Game...
...Bronx bedlam...
...Tuesday the city was in a sports frenzy. Washington D.C.?s most famous citizen showed up. So did the President. With Michael Jordan downtown making his third basketball comeback against the Knicks, President Bush choppered in to the South Bronx to toss the first ball, two days after the government issued a warning about a new round of terrorist attacks. Ticket scalpers were having an early Christmas. While Bush was heaving a floater over for a strike, fans were still lined up outside, impatiently waiting to get through an army of cops and metal detectors and into the ballparks...
...could Game 6 possibly produce anything close to what had happened in the Bronx? It couldn?t. Instead, baseball in the Twilight Zone had shifted into Pacific Standard Time. The matchup was the same as Game 1, with the Slim Jim slinger, Johnson, paired against Pettitte. The Big Unit came into the playoffs with a horrible 1-7 record, while Pettitte had proven big game credentials. But in this Series, everything that ever happened in baseball before it seems irrelevant. Johnson set the Yanks down in order in the first, while his teammates touched Pettite for a run. Pettitte...