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...pages, six ads, and a sprawling, 12-page fashion spread. One article is titled “Not Quite Currier: The Living Space of Nathan Gunawan.” It’s a photo essay of sorts, depicting a boy who lives in Boston’s Ritz Carlton. “Most Harvard students go home to deteriorating buildings, marginal heating, and oftentimes haywire plumbing,” the intro text reads. “The Phoenix Club’s Nathan Gunawan drives home to his pad in none other than Boston’s Ritz Carlton...
...never started another game, and for the past three seasons that seemed more than probable, Dennis Leonard would already be the most remarkable pitcher of the past twelve years. From 1975 through 1982, only Steve Carlton won more frequently, though only Kansas City appeared to notice. Thrice a 20-game winner for the Royals, Leonard was the most bankable starter in the American League, the most successful righthander in baseball...
PLEADED GUILTY. CARLTON DOTSON, 23, ex-basketball player for Baylor University; to the 2003 shooting murder of his former teammate, friend and sometime roommate, star center PATRICK DENNEHY; in Waco, Texas. Dotson, who claimed to have been hearing voices at the time of the shooting and who was initially ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial, surprised prosecutors by pleading guilty--without any deals for leniency--a few days before jury selection was to begin. He faces up to life in prison...
...beleaguered starting pitcher in his fight against the oppressive hitters. So far this season, however, starters are staying in the fight much longer, determined to finish off the battles that they begin. A new caste of young warriors has arisen to take up the mantle of Palmer and Carlton, sworn to driving out the evils of the current regime and driving down the level of offense...
Oddly, though, his richest memory is of a losing game, the sixth of the seven with the Boston Red Sox in the 1975 World Series. "That game was 3-0, 3-3, 6-3, 6-6 and finally 7-6 for the Red Sox. I turned to their catcher, Carlton Fisk, and said, 'Ain't it great just to be playing a game like this?' That's a particular moment for me, but as I look back, it seems that all of the great moments are from World Series and playoffs. Winning baseball games has meant the most...