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...teammate of mine from our high school baseball team offered to take me along to Game One of the 1988 World Series: Dodger Stadium, the Oakland A's versus the Los Angeles Dodgers...
...greatest reliever of all time, came in to pitch the ninth inning, his team up 4-3. He retired the first two batters, and got to a count of one ball and two strikes on Mike Davis, who hadn't hit well all season. From our seats in Dodger Stadium's upper deck, we could see the entire stadium parking lot. It was already emptying out fast as fans tried to beat traffic and make it home. This game was over...
Then something incredible happened. Eckersley, who has the control of a pitching machine, walked Davis. And Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda sent Kirk Gibson to the plate to pinch...
...women in uniform toward a newly minted President. Believing that 12 years of Republican indulgence has habituated the military to calling its own shots, the President has dreamed of reaffirming civilian leadership over the Pentagon. But his hands have been tied both by his image as a draft dodger and by the popularity and political adroitness of General Colin Powell, the extraordinary Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who virtually dictated the Pentagon's opposition to admitting homosexuals to the armed forces and resisted military involvement in Bosnia. Last week Clinton finally got the chance to take the helm...
...product of a criminal subculture, Wills had a perfect pedigree in pilfering. Abandoned as a child, he was raised by a foster family that included two car-thieving brothers before becoming the Artful Dodger to the Fagin of Bucks County. After his arrest (and before fleeing), Wills told the FBI that he learned much of the craft as a teenager from John Palamarchuk, a 68-year-old former body-shop owner known to law enforcement as "One-Eyed." (His right eye socket, filled with a plastic orb, is barely open.) Wills, who did not own a driver's license, sometimes...