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...couple of cozy new Major League Baseball parks make good reasons to take the family on the road this summer. Citizens Bank Park, right, in Philadelphia features a skyline view beyond center field, a promenade where Geno's and Tony Luke's offer their famous cheesesteaks, and the Phanatic Kid's Corner, where children can dress their own mini-version of the Phillies mascot. With a sandbox behind the outfield wall, San Diego's Petco Park is also kid friendly. Trolley rides to the waterfront park and the old brick warehouse in left field are among Petco's other charms...
...also show how some of our mores have changed. Consider the casino-based series, which place the viewers' sympathies with management--that is, with mammoth businesses predicated on systematically beating the little guy, one hand at a time. TV once made populist heroes of rascally underdogs like Bo and Luke Duke and con men and cardsharps like Bret Maverick. Today--The Cooler and the Ocean's Eleven remake notwithstanding--we more often root for the overdogs, the entrepreneurs and the security chiefs who use military-grade surveillance technology to protect their shekels from card counters and scammers. "Nobody cheats...
...over the next five minutes the tide shifted. The Crimson role players came in and filled roles perfectly. Junior guard David Giovacchini knocked down a jumper, while sophomore forward Luke McCrone and freshman guard Jim Goffredo each knocked down threes to keep Harvard within...
Some grown men have trouble embracing their fathers in public. Russert hugs his for 21 chapters in Big Russ & Me (Miramax Books; 336 pages), a memoir that is part tribute to his dad and part guidebook for the author's college-age son Luke. The elder Tim Russert nearly died in World War II, but his namesake celebrates--more than the moments of high drama--the grace with which his father fulfilled his daily obligations. His principles are as simple as the book's chapter titles: "Work," "Faith" and "Discipline." Big Russ worked for the sanitation department in the morning...
...Luke Smith...