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...sense it already has. Third baseman Joe Crede put his finger on the admixture of joy and disbelief swirling over this Series city: "It's weird that it is happening here in Chicago--and I'm part of the team!" The Sox ended on top of the American League after an amazing and strange season in which the team--a reconstruction project peopled by retreads and castoffs from four countries--earned every bit of its glory. The Sox notched a league-best 99 victories and held first place from opening day. In the play-offs, the Pale Hose swatted...
When conservative commentator Bruce Bartlett was axed by the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-wing think tank, for his new book accusing George W. Bush of betraying the Reagan legacy, bloggers on both sides banded in disbelief. "Bush finally unites us all," mused THOUGHT MECHANICS. On the left, A POLITICAL MISERY crowed, "It sure is nice to see that those who used to support the murderous moron squatting in the White House are beginning to break away." Even right-minded PRESTOPUNDIT had to concede: "A lot of conservatives are exhausted by the Bush presidency, and some...
...murder of any child prompts disbelief and heartbreak, but the glamorous trappings behind the death of JonBenet Ramsey, 6, underscored how hideously inappropriate such tragedies are. She was a toddler turned beauty queen--Little Miss Colorado of 1995, among other titles--and a child of wealth and privilege. Her father John, 53, is president of Access Graphics, a high-tech, billion-dollar-a-year branch of Lockheed Martin; her mother Patricia, 39, widely known as Patsy, is a former Miss West Virginia (1977) and is active in social and charitable circles. The little girl's strangled body was discovered...
...Japan, the Shenzhou V launch was met with disbelief and anxiety that continues to reverberate among scientific and political circles. "We were surprised," says Masashi Okada, a launch-systems engineer at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the country's equivalent of NASA. "Obviously we knew they were working toward it, but they achieved manned flight very quickly." Japan's own space program had been in decline for years, hobbled by a habit of following the U.S.'s lead and by domestic regulatory barriers that bar programs with potential military applications. Between 1999 and 2004, the space program's budget...
...implausible as the plot may occasionally seem, the director manages to suspend our disbelief through the charisma of the flamboyant Maggie and the more somber Rose. Collette masterfully brings Rose’s internal transformation to the surface—in her struggle to open up emotionally, she reveals herself to the audience, with brighter smiles, a more confident gait, and a simple abandonment of camera-consciousness. The result is a maturely developed character, deserving of our empathy (who doesn’t relate to bouts of ice cream-filled self-deprecation...