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Nothing fancy in Jersey tomorrow: this game will be three yards and a cloud of dust, dustier team wins (more dusty? dustiest...
Ehud Barak, the Israeli Prime Minister, doesn't care much about how things look. The tanks he supervised as an army officer were among the military's dustiest. The suits he wears as a civilian are unmodish and occasionally ill fitting. Points of ceremony do not rate with him. He refused to take umbrage when the Syrians sent merely their Foreign Minister to a peace summit with him last December--or to be insulted when his negotiating partner would not shake his hand...
...flat-topped Reds second baseman whom Mickey Mantle rechristened "Charlie Hustle." Through 24 seasons at five positions, Rose devoured the game with such a primitive pleasure that people said he had skipped his true generation. Usually sliding on his stomach, he inched closer and closer to the dustiest of legends until in 1985 he passed Ty Cobb in total hits and kept on going to a record 4,256 hits and 3,562 games. Then he became the legend...
...have a horse than a human as a friend. Every day he stakes his life and livelihood on that idea. He refuses to call what he does "breaking" a horse, claiming there is no word that adequately describes the relationship. His smile is a hard beam that penetrates the dustiest corral. Raised on a farm in the days of horsepower, Ray tells me he has picked prunes, fixed fence, driven heavy machinery and cowboyed -- anything to make a living -- but it was always the horse that remained dear to him. "People think the horse is dumb and they're smart...
...meant on your own, "the Inquisitor said, obviously disappointed that I hadn't spent all my spare nights paging through yellow pamphlets in Widener's dustiest recesses. Since he hadn't read my thesis, he turned to my bibliography page, and said, "There are a lot of names here I expect, and then, there are a lot of others missing." He began to tell me whom I should have used. I said that I felt my interpretations of the books and films were just as valid as the people he was naming, and that I couldn't read everything-especially...