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Today, I am reminded of Ken Burns' baseball documentary. He interviews former Negro-leaguer Buck O'Neil, who remembers how he once heard this special crack of the bat as a youngster. He looked over at the batter, and it was Babe Ruth...
...against a quality opponent and a definite make-or-break game as far as the NCAAs were concerned. Unfortunately, "break" turned out to be the result. The Fighting Irish thrashed the Crimson, 13-5, down in Indiana, as Harvard's attackers simply could not figure out a way to crack Notre Dame's stingy defense...
...Huntington Beach, Calif., has a rap sheet two pages long that includes such charges as assault with a deadly weapon, obstructing an officer, burglary and buying cocaine. And another couple who may be called to place Markhasev at the crime scene has the dubious distinction of being alleged crack suppliers to Markhasev, Zakaria and Peters...
...Feinstein has made in the past four years, thanks to Federal Election Commission records stored online. Criminal records are also available, but they cost too much, and I figure that with a straight arrow like Feinstein, they're a low-percentage shot. The Senator's husband is easier to crack. Blum's SSN turned up in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Edgar database, and when I plugged it into an SSN trace service ($5 a pop), I found five different addresses, including a vacation home at Lake Tahoe...
...there was any gloating at The New York Times, Washington Post or Los Angeles Times over executive editor Jerry Ceppos' abject pullback from the San Jose Mercury News's series about the crack-contra link, there shouldn't have been. Gary Webb's stories were seriously flawed, but so were the stories those papers produced in an attempt to debunk him. All three, to a greater or lesser extent, committed the same journalistic sin for which they indicted the Mercury News: playing up evidence that Webb was wrong while burying proof to the contrary...