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...that is indeed so, one might be tempted to dismiss the story of Brook's career as just so much irrelevant nostalgia. That, however, would be a mistake. Brook's tale of small-town weekly newspapering has lessons for everyone--from the grandest of metropolitan daily editors to the lowliest of small-town weekly readers...
...STORM CLOUDS HAD PASSED OVER, leaving behind a cool, clear Florida evening, a perfect night for the grandest spectacle that baseball could offer: Nolan Ryan pitching in a spring-training ball park so intimate that there are no bad seats. Ryan, "the Wizard of Whiff," 46 years young (Bill Clinton's junior by five months), was dazzling against the New York Yankees on this mid- March evening. For the 5,000 lucky fans, all that mattered was the explosive pop of Ryan's fastball into the glove of Texas Ranger catcher Ivan Rodriguez. During his five-inning stint, Ryan...
...spectacle you see now, and for 60 hours on television, until the New Orleans finals on April 5, has been dubbed "March Madness" by the network hucksters, and it is the grandest play-off of any -- 112 college teams (64 men's, 48 women's) joyfully colliding, with their brass bands and cheerleaders and painted crazies in tow, in cities from Orlando, Florida, to Salt Lake City, Utah. March Madness is one of the nation's three greatest athletic events (the other two are the World Series and the Super Bowl), but it is only part of an underlying phenomenon...
...fund his grandest reforms -- from a health-care system to an industrial policy -- Bill Clinton is sure to come back a few months from now with another appeal to sacrifice. Less than 48 hours after hitting up Americans for $246 billion in new taxes over four years, Clinton was already discussing the idea of a national sales tax as if it were a not too distant possibility. "I did not mean to float a trial balloon," Clinton said Friday, as the issue threatened to engulf his campaign to push his first round of tax proposals. Meanwhile in Washington, Clinton...
...late 1950s. How could the networks re-create those dramatic question-and-answer confrontations that had been so popular with the viewers? Finally, two years after the $64,000 Question was yanked off the air, the format resurfaced in 1960 in a new high-minded incarnation featuring the grandest prize of all -- a four-year lease on a pretentiously formal 18th century residence in Washington...