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Most sane people would have seen the story--and dismissed as a fool anyone who would scamper 900 yards down narrow streets with six raging bulls nipping at his heels. But not Branca...
They took a three-run lead in game seven, but they didn't fool me. Nor the Mets...
Pennywise, a brightly dressed clown, beguiles the young passers-by. The lucky ones elude the creature. The others are never seen again -- alive. This is obviously not your average Ringling Bros. fool with bulbous nose and orange sideburns. When it shucks off its costume, it resembles a spider. Or a crawling eye. Or a mummy. Its breath is foul, its eyes are mere holes, and its diet consists of human entrees. Pennywise's address is the sewers of Derry, Me., but the monster is only renting there. Its permanent home is a far stranger dwelling: the mind of Stephen Edwin...
...engages in mathematical modeling, "one does look for simplified mechanisms, but let's not fool ourselves--that's what all science does," says the Washington, D.C. native. "I don't think that any science prospers without good observation. Much of what we want to understand in political science are the regularities we observe...
When I finally sat down, a little hot and more than a little embarrassed, the Burmese went nuts; this wasn't just a white person with yellow hair, but a white person making a fool of herself. Several of the women embraced me, and when the dance was over, they clustered around and yanked at my earrings. At first I didn't understand what they were saying, but then I understood "You give me present!" They wanted my earrings, and each expected a present of makeup or jewelry. Tom and I were a bit disconcerted that this wonderful hospitality should...