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...take you back to October 16, 2003. Last fall, I was perched high in the upper deck above home plate, one of 56,279 in attendance at Yankee Stadium to watch the Red Sox take on the Bronx Bombers in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series. My younger brother and I sat there in the eighth inning amidst a sea of mortal enemies and started going nuts as Sox slugger David Ortiz launched a home run into the Bronx night to put the Sox up 5-2 with two innings left. It was one of the greatest moments?...
...came quickly. Two months after I met Mohammed, the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv printed a deck of cards showing 34 Hamas leaders targeted for assassination. Mohammed, his face a blank silhouette, was the jack of spades, No. 9 on the list. Two days later, an Israeli Apache helicopter gunship located Mohammed's walkie-talkie as he sat in a car about 100 yards from where I had met him. "It was his one hobby, to swim," Mohammed's brother later told me. "His fate was to die by the sea." The helicopter launched at least three Hellfire missiles...
...performance and attendance started collapsing, Hicks lost his gamble, having to trade ARod while continuing to cover part of his salary. Being known for your salary is a dubious recognition, but ARod handles it smoothly. "I'm proud of my contract," he says, sitting with his wife on the deck of their house as the sun sets over the bay. "I can't run away from that. I think we've been put in this situation, Cynthia and I, from a philanthropic point of view, to help thousands of kids." He is good...
...peppers and hot seasonings mixed with batter and deep fried, conch fritters have an almost indefinable,spicy-with-a-hint-of-the-ocean taste. A home-cooked staple, conch fritters also feature as appetizers in many a Bahamian restaurant. Try them (six for $4.75) at local favorite The Poop Deck: sit on the veranda overlooking the harbor and yacht-watch, or enjoy the views of Paradise Island just across the water. But if you've worked up an appetite climbing the 65 steps of Nassau's Queen's Staircase (carved out of limestone by slaves...
...deck: head to the Bayou for a four-game weekend set March 20-21 as the Harvard baseball team takes on Louisiana-Lafayette and Michigan. If that last act didn’t knock your socks off, here’s something that will. It’s wacky. Nay, extraordinary. It?...