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...teammates were just as immature. After Greg Harris choked away a crucial September game, walking home the tying and winning runs on eight straight pitches, he had the gall to blame umpire Vic Voltaggio for "squeezing the strike zone." After Jack Clark, another multi-million dollar bust, struck out three times in an extra-inning loss, he blamed Morgan for being a lousy motivator. After left fielder Mike Greenwell attacked first baseman Mo Vaughn with a bat, Greenwell blamed the media for "blowing this out of proportion...
...Claus von Bulow, was a central character in the film Reversal of Fortune. Ron Silver accurately portrayed him as an amalgam of clenched hair and perverse brilliance. Those eager for a sequel have only to consult Chutzpah. The title is a Yiddish term that resists translation. In a word, gall. In two words, Alan Dershowitz...
...press" held out and refused to print ghost-written work. But the cause was probably lost when the New York Times Magazine published a ghost-written piece by Jimmy Carter. A few months ago, Time ran a ghostwritten cover story with George Bush's byline--and even had the gall to run a full page photo that purported to show the President "putting the finishing touches" on the piece at his Oval Office desk...
Harvard won me over--me, the student who threw a fit when the first--year rooming group had the pretentiousness and gall to hang a Harvard banner in the common room...
...ostensible argument of the book is that Jews should employ more chutzpah when it comes to standing up against anti-Semitism. ("Chutzpah" is an untranslatable Yiddish term describing qualities of assertiveness, demandingness and gall.) Dershowitz argues that Jews have too long allowed themselves to be trodden upon--to be treated as second-class citizens--because they are too concerned about making a favorable impression on their Gentile "hosts...