Word: heart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game in 10 innings), but nevertheless received a standing ovation from the crowd at Fenway. It's not very often that fans call for a losing pitcher to come back out for a curtain call, but Pedro is different: He has captured all of Red Sox Nation's heart...
...their verdict: the linen of the cloth dated no earlier than the late Middle Ages. Skeptics rejoiced; romantics were subdued. One crestfallen enthusiast later wrote, "It seemed that anyone who had previously upheld any serious case for the shroud's credibility...had been dealt a fatal stab to the heart...
...signed a document that says that the political status of the province could be changed only by a majority vote of the people of the North. By anyone's count, that would delay a united Ireland for at least a generation, perhaps two. Why this change of heart? Why did politicians with records of spectacular intransigence finally agree to compromise...
...gets back into his car. Driving off, he turns up the volume of Saint-Saens. As rain and snow come down hard on the windshield and the classical music begins a crescendo, the old Catholic missionary looks suddenly weary. He is still recovering from a recent triple-bypass heart operation, and he's been told the prognosis is not good. "People think I'm a fool," he says, "but I love these guys--all of them. I know that many of them have done some really bad things, even killed people. But no matter what, I won't turn...
...would Tracy know when to come by? "She just knew," the writer recalls wistfully. "If you wished for her, she was there. Never far from your heart. She could sense when there was a shortage. She was like a drug dealer." Few hit shows were immune. Mad About You's Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser were soon seen in spanking new Nikes, and the shoes started popping up on air all over the networks--in effect, unpaid product placements...