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...defense, he has played hard since joining the Padres last year and he has been playing with a sore ankle this season. But running hard to first base should be the least a player can do. And remember, this isn't the first time Plantier has had a clash with a manager. Red Sox manager Butch Hobson complained about Plantier's work ethic during the 1992 season, and that helped precipitate the trade that sent Plantier to San Diego for pitcher Jose Melendez...
Sports movies could be much more than that. Sport, after all, makes for potent drama, brimming with passion and fear. It is a stage on which winners, who are sometimes villains, and losers, who are sometimes heroes, are clearly defined at the climax. It creates a clash of strong figures engaged in a recreation as elemental as love or war, and with just as much foreplay, anxiety, strategy, abrasion and betrayal. In The Program, one of the few movies to offer clear-eyed criticism of modern athletics, the players psych themselves up for a game by spitting in each other...
...universal coverage. Each senses that the American public will balk at a plan that is too bureaucratic, too byzantine or too pricey for taxpayers. And each hopes to make the books as the brains behind historic legislation. Not surprisingly, all of this is rapidly giving way to a bloody clash of egos...
HEALTH CARE: A Bloody Clash of Egos...
...Like It tells the story of various disgruntled courtiers who flee to the mysterious Forest of Arden, some in voluntary, some in forced exile. The rustic life stands in sharp contrast to the luxury of the court; hardcore culture clash ensues. Against this background, Shakespeare relates three romances, at the level of nobility, attendants, and peasants, to indicate the essential kinship of all men. But Stratford's little boy doesn't paint a universally pleasant picture: some of Shakespeare's gloomiest assessments of humanity and its condition appear in As You Like It. This play gave us "All the world...