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...months apart in 1908, Fingleton and Bradman were team-mates but never friends. On their first meeting, they had a Pride and Prejudice moment that set the tone of their relationship. Fingleton mispronounced the word tetanus, and Bradman corrected him with what Fingleton, a highly sensitive man except, it seems, where the feelings of others were concerned, perceived as scorn...
...through a series of bipartisan compromises. And it was striking to see House Republicans distancing themselves from Bush now that the time had come to clean up the mess, because for eight years they've been his most loyal supporters on the economy, on Iraq, on just about everything except his efforts to rein in earmarks and farm subsidies...
...balance. We borrow against our houses and pensions to live in a way that dares us to actually grow old. "Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon," Fidelity mastermind Peter Lynch advised, but we embraced all kinds of investments about which we understood nothing except the hollow promise that they would never fail. When the economy began to swoon we kept spending, effectively sending ourselves rebate checks from accounts already way overdrawn, as if it would make us feel better to buy a new TV and charge it to our kids. States fund their schools...
Piniella, 65, is more balanced and composed now than in his younger days. He no longer tosses bases or crushes watercoolers - except on the TV ads that play on his feisty image. "With his reputation, you're expecting this guy to be yelling and screaming every day," says Chicago first baseman Derrek Lee, a Cub since 2004 (Piniella joined the team last season). "It's not really like that." McCarver, a longtime friend of Piniella's, has seen a new Lou too. "His transformation has been more than subtle," he says. Yes, he's still brutally honest with his players...
...course, except for rare exceptions, it's not McCain or even his aides who are calling the shots in the war against the conservative grass roots. But after decades as a leader in the state, McCain has powerful allies and former staffers who run much of the GOP establishment, from the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (which used to be run by his son Andy McCain) to the state house and senate, where moderate Republicans like outgoing senate president Tim Bee and Tucson representative Pete Hershberger have been able to push through much of their agenda by working with Democrats...