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...rings late in their careers. Dan Marino and Barry Sanders never won any. The latter two's careers weren't diminished... much. We like to say it doesn't matter whether a future Hall of Famer retires without winning a league title, but think of how we'd regard Jim Kelly if the Bills had won four Super Bowls instead of losing them...
...familiar memory to people who remember the South in the days before Brown v. Board of Education - the days of Jim Crow racism (I have thousands of memories of that) accompanied by the bittersweet, paradoxical business of real, exuberant friendships between black children and white children: innocent intimacies, prelapsarian. Those friendships have the quality of Mark Twain boyhoods - not entirely a matter of Tom Sawyer's rapscallion innocence, but something of boyhood bitterly shadowed, as "Huckleberry Finn" was, by violence, alcoholism, hatred, vicious stupidity and the precocious knowledge of evil. Harper Lee had the atmosphere in "To Kill a Mockingbird...
...road before. It was 1998, and "The Truman Show" was being heaped with critical praise. By the time Oscar season rolled around, however, the film had lost much of its heat. Truman received a handful of nominations, but Linney was denied a nod for her creepy, hilarious turn as Jim Carrey's wife, an overly cheerful actress who periodically turns to hidden cameras in their home to plug household products, and the film itself was absent from the Best Picture category. "You call something the movie of the decade and you're asking for it," says Linney. "There...
...Jim Warren, Harvard Bioscience's chief financial officer, said that the company has referred to "bioscience" in its catalogs since 1981 and has used the word "Harvard" since its inception 100 years ago. He said that the name change was a natural step for the company to take as it went public...
Apparently, though, traditions are made to be broken. This year I thought sure our movie choice would be Jim Carrey's The Grinch, what with all those Christmasy costumes. But Mom has her heart set on Dude, Where...