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Most days, only fantasy-league players and stat geeks get excited by baseball box scores. But MLB.com has thrown a new curve in the old game. The website's VBox allows you to click on a box-score number and watch the corresponding highlight--or lowlight. Ken Griffey Jr. has two hits? Watch them both on VBox. The home team's announcers call the action, and the video quality is top-notch. VBox is available free in about half of MLB.com's box scores. By July's All-Star break, it should be up for all games...
...pitiless terror, to minister to a city that discovers in a single moment that every moment counts, that everything you were certain of can change in an instant. We knew that he was a tough man. It took the trauma for us to discover the tenderness, the offscreen, backstage, lowlight kindness he showed to widow after widow, child after child. A man considered incapable of empathy, who could scarcely mutter a word of condolence to the mother of an unarmed man his police force had shot 41 times, somehow knew what to say?and just as important, what...
...extreme lowlight occurred when one of the other coaches, with as much charm as Albert Belle, cursed us out and challenged us to a fight on the field after he thought we were intentionally walking a runner. That player happened to strike out, and thankfully the big bully was given a temporary suspension by the league...
...There have been so many," Parker answers. "Earlier in my career, it may have been easier, but now, it seems as if every win is a highlight and every loss a lowlight...
Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto was both the highlight and the lowlight of the evening. The orchestra was vigorous and forceful; Munch conducted with sweeping brilliance. But pianist Leila Goussean was as miscast playing the Emperor as Pier Angrli would be, playing Moby Dick. It takes a man--a strong man--to make this showy, difficult concerto come to life...