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...sense it already has. Third baseman Joe Crede put his finger on the admixture of joy and disbelief swirling over this Series city: "It's weird that it is happening here in Chicago--and I'm part of the team!" The Sox ended on top of the American League after an amazing and strange season in which the team--a reconstruction project peopled by retreads and castoffs from four countries--earned every bit of its glory. The Sox notched a league-best 99 victories and held first place from opening day. In the play-offs, the Pale Hose swatted...
...little shed behind Joy Whitehouse's modest home is filled with aluminum cans--soda cans, soup cans and vegetable cans--that she collects from neighbors or finds during her periodic expeditions along the roadside. Two times a month, she takes them to a recycler, who pays her as much as $30 for her harvest of castoffs. When your fixed income is $942 a month, an extra $30 here and there makes a big difference. After paying rent, utilities and insurance, Whitehouse is left with less than $40 a week to cover everything else. So the money from cans helps...
...that in the end, all but the most affluent citizens will have two options. They can join Joy Whitehouse in the can-collection business, or they can follow in the footsteps of Betty Dizik of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who is into her sixth decade as a working American. She has no choice. Dizik did not lose her pension. Like most Americans, she never had one, or a 401(k). After her husband died in 1968, she held a series of jobs managing apartments and self-storage facilities, tasks that brought her into contact with the public. "I like working with...
...PREPARE FOR AN INTERVIEW? I take a yellow pad and categorize my questions. Ambition, motivation, greed, joy, defeat ... 50, 75 questions. And then what happens is, when an interviewee is maybe reluctant to really let it come out, you establish the chemistry of confidentiality with these questions. They begin to understand I know an awful lot about them, and I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions...
Tribe wrote that his interest in teaching the new undergrad course “was sparked by the remarkable joy of being alive; of experiencing many kinds of love, including love for the woman to whom I’ve been married for a long time and for the children we have had together; of watching people I love die; of thinking and teaching about abortion, same-sex marriage, and the right to physician-assisted suicide; and of dreaming about pulling all of that together in an exploratory way with bright young people...