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...losers and misfits who would later inhabit his fiction. A tireless traveler and avid gambler, Algren was a genial loner who spoke in the language of his working-class roots. He once warned, "Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never go to bed with a woman whose troubles are greater than your...
...McBride of the 1974 St. Louis Cardinals. Brock stole 118 that year, and McBride pilfered 30. Last season LeFlore stole 97 while Scott stole 63. 31. No. 37 of the Cardinals is Keith Hernandez: No. 23 of the Mets is Doug Flynn: No. 42 of the Rangers is George "Doc" Medich: No. 2 of the Twins is John Castino: No. 10 of the Royals is Clint Hurdle. 32. M. Donald Grant, later the President of the Board of the New York Nets, the team which replaced the Giants in the Big Apple. 33. Danny McDevitt. 34. The Chicago White...
...Crimson converting a phenomenal 23 of 25 attempts (92 per cent), while Columbia made good on only seven of 16. Don Fleming went five for five from the line and seven for nine from the field to check in as the game's high scorer with 19 points. Doc Joe Carrabino added 18 points for the Crimson...
...Then it was on to Kenya for the Mau Mau uprising and later to a leper colony during the final days of the Belgian Congo. He sampled pornography in Batista's Havana, just before Castro and his forces came down from the hills. He fetched up in "Papa Doc" Duvalier's Haiti in 1963 and found himself under Egyptian gunfire in Israel in 1967. It would be hard to think of a contemporary writer who has exposed himself to danger so thoroughly, in so many troubled spots...
Following the arrests, Baby Doc told a mob of his supporters who gathered outside the gleaming white National Palace in Port-au-Prince that "intellectuals and thinkers have the right to exercise democracy day and night. All I ask is that they respect me." He also added that "democracy is not license." Meanwhile, the crackdown sparked rallies and prayer vigils in the major Haitian exile communities in the U.S. Correctly or not, the arrests will be used by the exiles as evidence that all the Haitian boat people-there are more than 30,000 in south Florida alone -are political...