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...brief ceremony beforehand (“Ted wanted it this way,” said master of ceremonies Curt Gowdy), Williams restlessly toed the turf before him, and gazed out to the left field stands while Boston dignitaries praised...
...River's shifty personality was a constant problem for Lewis and Clark, who struggled against its powerful current and crumbling riverbanks. To 19th century westward expansionists, the Missouri was something to be harnessed, its rambunctious energy put to work. It was. Seven dams erected between 1933 and 1966 now master the once-wild river as it follows its twisting, seven-state course from its headwaters near the Rockies to its confluence with the Mississippi, north of St. Louis...
...with a pump jack for a metronome. But the Depression was then. This is now. Political correctness is addicted to committing the sin of anachronism--imposing the current sense of racial and environmental decorum upon earlier times. Consider Thomas Jefferson's descent from Enlightenment philosopher and naturalist to slave master and debaucher of Sally Hemings--a fair enough revisionist correction, if kept in disciplined perspective. Of course, one age's evil is another's routine. Meriwether Lewis, as specimen-collecting naturalist, blasted away at a condor--a barbarous breach of ecological etiquette today. (He missed.) Audubon slaughtered a thousand birds...
...myself," he says. "I absorb it, digest it and come back the next day. That's all I can do") as proof of Zen profundity, there's the temptation to believe he received his gift from some monk on a mountaintop. It doesn't quite fit that Japan's master hitter actually grew up an American clichE: Ichiro worked himself to greatness...
...worldwide investigations into the mysteries of the Sept. 11 terror conspiracy roll on, officials in Europe have pondered an enigma: Where is Abu Qatada? Described by some justice officials as the spiritual leader and possible puppet master of al-Qaeda's European networks, Qatada has been missing since mid-December, after British authorities confiscated his passport, froze his assets and ordered him confined to his London home. With Jordan seeking his return to serve a life sentence for terror-related crimes, some observers figured Qatada went underground - and perhaps left Britain - to avoid extradition. But senior European intelligence officials tell...