Word: greates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...banishment from baseball -- in comparison with the paltry rewards (a few thousand dollars to each man) imparted ironic force to the story. And then there were the poignant sidebars: the little boy crying "Say it ain't so, Joe," as Shoeless Joe Jackson, greatest of the team's several great players, emerged from the grand-jury room one day; the sports-page paragraph that almost annually recounted Buck Weaver's latest pathetic attempt to clear his name (he was not part of the conspiracy but knew about it, failed to report it and was punished with the rest...
...distance, he might have done better. But outsiders, ranging from ) sportswriters like Ring Lardner (played by Sayles himself) to Supergambler Arnold Rothstein, are present and superficially accounted for. They take screen time away from the team, where the only ones who lay full claim to our attention are the great but aging pitcher Eddie Cicotte (David Strathairn); Third Baseman Weaver (John Cusack), an appealing victim; and Kid Gleason, their manager (John Mahoney), who is suspicious of his charges yet sympathetic to them. The rest of the club, including Charlie Sheen as Hap Felsch, is reduced to bit-player status...
...Western diplomat in Burundi denied seeing evidence of a military killing spree. "The idea that the army is massacring the Hutu is just not what we're hearing here," he said. "Nongovernmental sources, including missionaries coming down from the north, say the army is acting with a great deal of restraint...
...private how they are going to confront the inevitable challenge to their daily routines when a beggar crosses their paths, interrupts their reveries or places their subway cars under siege. And for more and more, the decision is no longer automatic. "A lot of people go through a great internal debate every time they're approached for money," says Bob Prentice, San Francisco's ) homeless coordinator. "The hostile people just want to get rid of them, and the sympathetic ones feel impotent. They know they can't transform people's lives with a quarter, but they still want to help...
...sustained by her belief that "this isn't the end, and parting isn't forever." For those who take a more secular view of death, there are very practical reasons for the hospice philosophy. "We must not lose the chance," she says, "of making good on a great deal of untidiness in our lives, or of making time to pack our bags and say, 'Sorry, goodbye and thank you.' " There are many in the world today who, after watching death come calmly and peacefully to relatives, have good reason to say thank you to Dame Cicely...