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...decisive fifth game of the 1976 ALCS, with the Yankees and Royals tied 6-6 in the bottom of the ninth, Yankee first baseman Chris Chambliss belted a game-winning home run, sparking bedlam in the Bronx. Thousands of delirious fans rushed the field, mobbing Chambliss as he ran the bases. Chambliss fled to safety before stepping on home plate, and, after police had finally cleared the diamond, emerged from the dugout to touch home only to find a fan had stolen it. "Where home plate had been imbedded, there was an empty bottle of Hiram Walker peach-flavored brandy...
Neel Kashkari is the world's most powerful temp. Over the next month, the 35-year-old onetime AC/DC fan and aerospace engineer will run the $700 billion Treasury Department program to rescue the American economy by pricing, buying and, hopefully, reselling some of the most complex financial instruments ever devised--all so that the credit markets can function again. Kashkari's job is pivotal; how long Kashkari will hold on to it isn't clear. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson intends to work with whoever is elected Nov. 4 to name a permanent head of the rescue program, get that...
...meet the action-movie fan halfway, Body of Lies punctuates its chatter and derring-do with explosions. At first the shock is salutary and, in movie terms, socko. But as the bombings mount, they become routine, expected, like the dance numbers in an Astaire-Rogers musical. Indeed, nothing happens just once in this movie, including gruesome torture scenes. The chief terrorist's threat--"We have bled. Now they will bleed. And bleed until they are bled out"--is the movie's promise...
...Kashkari grew up in Stow, Ohio, an Akron suburb. As a high school student, he was a fan of heavy metal bands like AC/DC, whose lyrics dot his high school yearbook. He is 35 years...
...Next Life,” as well as from unpublished works. Reading with rapidity and inflection, she created images of life characterized by elements of the everyday, mixing symbols of the absolute and of the universal. “This child fights cancer with the help of her celebrity fan club,” Armantrout read from her poem “Operations.” In another poem, from “Next Life,” she read, “Is it the beginning or end / of real love / when we pity a person / because...