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...back's final lesson is simple yet falls on deaf ears in a league full of showboaters: Don't hog the spotlight. Are you listening, Terrell Owens? "I don't like the attention," Tomlinson says. "It's annoying at times." Although he would still be the league's top player on almost any other team, LT showers constant praise on his teammates, and the endless accolades he receives cause him consternation. When the best player in football suppresses his ego, how can anyone else call attention to himself? "It's learned behavior," says Chargers tight end Antonio Gates...
CONTEMPLATING HOG HEAVEN WITH GEORGE...
...Latino immigrant workers at Smithfield, the world's largest hog-processing plant, are not union members. But a month ago nearly 1,000 of them walked off the job for two days, protesting hundreds of recent firings in a crackdown on undocumented workers. The company quickly capitulated and agreed to rehire the workers, and made other concessions, like meeting with the workers' representatives and agreeing that no one would be disciplined for the walkout...
...straight, because it's 0400 and I've been at work for 20 hours straight, somehow missing dinner again in the process. And once again I haven't written to anyone. It starts all over again four hours later. It's not really like Ground Hog Day, it's more like a level from Dante's Inferno...
...prose, Franzen's ranking would be through the roof. He puts up Updikean numbers. His writer's eye picks out the "chevroned metal floor" of a merry-go-round, and a man with a ponytail "as thick as a pony's tail." A cheap space heater is "a wattage hog with a stertorous fan and a grinning orange mouth." The California towhee, one of his favorite birds, is like "a friend whose energy and optimism had escaped the confines of a single body to animate roadsides and backyards across thousands of square miles...