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There is the early summer and the light of winter coming, and baseball embraces both. The musical Damn Yankees is the story of an old man named Joe who barters his soul to the devil to be made young again and help the Washington Senators win the pennant. As usually happens in such bargains, he changes his mind in the end, and the devil turns Joe old again just at the moment he is running after a high drive sailing for the stands. He was a young man when he started out after the ball...
...18th century, several newspapers published anonymous and pseudonymous letters and articles criticizing British management of the American colonies. The author of these often satirical treatises, which did much to further the cause of revolution, was Benjamin Franklin. Joe Klein [PUBLIC EYE, July 29] is no Ben Franklin. The American Revolution should probably not even be mentioned in the same breath with the Clinton presidential campaign. But there is a tradition, older than America itself, of writers' being less than honest about their work to make an honest point. ERIN COOMBS-FRIEDMAN San Jose, California...
Those of you in the print media who are upset with old Joe are taking yourselves too seriously, if not bordering on entertaining delusions of godhood. It's time for a reality check. Did you really think anyone would go to the trouble (not to mention the marketing expense) of creating the Anonymous cover only to reveal the truth immediately upon being asked? After the book was published, the first reaction from your corner was to say the writer had to be one of you. Well, you were right. LYNN CAPEHART San Diego...
...continuing avalanche of O.J. Simpson books by high-profile authors was thinned by one Friday when 'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss said he was abandoning his planned account of the trial. Given a front-row seat throughout the trial, McGinniss had planned to cover the story as the '13th juror' by avoiding other media coverage. But nearly a year after the event, McGinniss decided there wasn't a whole lot of there there. In a letter to his publisher explaining why he was ditching both the book and a $1.7 million advance, McGinniss said the trial "sapped my intellect...
...Turkish weight lifter Naim Suleymanoglu); integrity (in the radiant face of Jonathan Edwards, the British triple jumper who said he was thrilled to get silver and made you believe it); sportsmanship (in the tears of American Lindsay Davenport after she beat her "very best friend," Mary Joe Fernandez, in the women's tennis semifinals); and brotherhood (in the 82-kg wrestling bout in which Elmadi Jabrailov of Kazakhstan beat Lucman Jabrailov of Moldovia--his elder brother and coach--before the two went off to relax together...