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...Boston and Fenway Park, arguably the best of the old-time ball fields--though with a few dubious distinctions. For starters, the park's opening game was held the same day the Titanic sank, in 1912. The home-team Red Sox have managed to stay afloat but haven't won a World Series since 1918. Still, no fan would want to miss seeing the Green Monster, the 37-ft.-high left-field wall painted in 1947. The Red Sox play Toronto (with ex-Red Sox legend Roger Clemens) on July 23, but before game day, spend a couple of days...
Opposites attract. If we didn't believe that slightly dubious premise, our culture--not to mention our inner lives--would be infinitely poorer: no Wuthering Heights, no Bringing Up Baby. On the other hand, to be strictly fair, had we been spared that thought we would also have been spared Abie's Irish Rose and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? You win some, you lose some...
...that in January 1995, when he got a friend to hang a camera out of the window of his Beverly Hills office and transmit to the Web live images of a bus-stop bench on Wilshire Boulevard. Oprah featured it and Bohnett on her TV show to illustrate the dubious pleasures of Web snooping. When crowds flocked to the site, Bohnett was ready. He put on his camera page links to "neighborhoods" that were really just more Web pages arranged by topic (such as sports, finance, entertainment). A few months later, he began giving away the home-page real estate...
...even with an all-star cast of 1990s pop sensations, the legacy of Legacy is dubious. It leads us to realize that even 25 years and numerous drug rehabilitations later, the best band to do Fleetwood Mac is still Fleetwood Mac. And it makes us wonder if our parents might have been right after all: maybe Stevie Nicks really is irreplaceable...
UMass senior defenseman Harold Drumm halted the run with his first goal of the season, which extended a dubious streak, four consecutive games in which a longstick has scored...