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...YORK--A couple of Thursdays ago was my first baseball game in, admittedly, a long time. It was nothing like what I remembered about ballgames. The stadium had been packed--even where I was, on the third deck--and there had been an almost savage tension in the air. Then again, I had never attended a famed Mets game on their own home turf, with La Guardia planes flying overhead and all, and one more thing: It was John Rocker's return to Shea Stadium...
Hours after escaping the wreck of the Andrea Doria, 22-year-old composer Mike Stoller peered from the deck of a rescue ship as it entered New York harbor to see his lyricist partner Jerry Leiber, also 22, lounging on the pier, holding an Italian silk suit--in case Mike needed dry clothes. "We have a hit!" Leiber cried. "Hound Dog...recorded by some kid named Elvis...
...debate between Gore and Bush equals a hand of five-card straight poker, nothing wild, and maybe, just to make things duller, no aces or face cards in the deck. Add Nader and Buchanan, and all of a sudden you are playing night baseball, high-low, push-crunch, deuces, treys and one-eyed jacks wild. Sloppy, but more fun. I'll see your Quemoy, and raise you Matsu...
...this busy week, Gore sat down with with TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty, lounging on a wicker chair on the wraparound porch of the VP's official residence in Washington. Birds chirping. Dog Daisy at his feet. He was very relaxed, wearing a loose tan sport shirt, khakis, battered deck shoes...
Except that homeowners who botch their deck repairs don't usually end up clogging the whole neighborhood with their debris. In the courts, while some pro se filers are very effective, many more wreak havoc and delay. "They don't know how to get the forms. They don't know how to fill them out," says Lisa Kahn, a circuit-court judge in Viera, Fla. Some pro se litigants drag out hearings to punish their spouse. They call women judges by their first name. They turn in forms blotched with suspicious stains. And God help them if their opponent...