Word: chris
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...think the ongoing steroids scandal will prevent Roger Clemens and Mark McGwire from ever entering the Hall of Fame? -Chris Oneto, San FranciscoI think they both deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. You can lump Barry Bonds in. The ability they all had and what they accomplished before anything came into question is worthy of the Hall of Fame...
...What do you want to achieve by joining another team? -Chris McHale, New York CityWhen I went to Tampa to meet with the Steinbrenners and when I did say goodbye to the Yankees, I certainly didn't envision myself doing any more of this. But the last three years in New York really weren't a lot of fun. I just wanted to see if managing could be fun again. It's a great life, and I'm not ready to lose the excitement...
...starting a family. Mullins wasn't just born poor; he was born into a living hell. His mother, a heavy drug user, died aged 40, leaving her son emotionally scarred and destitute. "Many people I know need to go out and thieve just to survive," says Mullins, whose friend Chris Abnett is trying to find a way out of a vicious circle of prison and unemployment. Abnett says he has a qualification in painting and decorating but can't get work because of his criminal record. Both Mullins and Abnett are being helped by Kids Company...
Escapism begins as fantasy, a desire to forget the tedium and problems of the everyday. But sometimes it can take you to a place more menacing than the one you are trying to escape. It is escapism that leads Chris, a fortysomething traveling salesman trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage, to a street corner in north London. There, he propositions Roza, an illegal Yugoslav immigrant in her 20s, who has donned a short skirt and fur jacket merely to see what trouble she can stir. She invites him to her dingy basement apartment for coffee and starts telling him about...
Obama's camp, which raised doubts about the reliability of the Michigan revote plan that Clinton's camp was pushing, has proposed that the candidates split the two states' delegates. On Thursday, former presidential contender Sen. Chris Dodd-who like Clinton had left his name on the Michigan ballot, and who now supports Obama-put out a statement declaring: "The best outcome is to come to an arrangement where the delegates are apportioned fairly between Senators Obama and Clinton, so the Michigan delegation can participate fully in the Denver convention." But Clinton almost immediately rejected that idea, telling reporters...