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...enough. But before you dismiss my suspicion that Barry has secretly taken possession of Williams' soul, look at all the evidence. There was the new mayor's Barry-like acceptance of a white official's resignation after he came under fire for using the word niggardly. There's the mess those telecommunications companies have made of our downtown streets with the city, in classic Barry mode, not even charging them a reasonable fee to repair the damage. And there's the unsettling fact that after a decade of declines in the homicide rate, we've had 86 killings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost of Marion Barry | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

Screams. Mayhem. Horror. Sirens. And after that an even more horrible noise: politicians. The sadness and stupidity of the shooting must be compounded by the pietistic jabber - the noise of pols who flap up from their roosts to wheel in the air like vultures above every such mess, especially if it is children who are, as we say, "at risk." There's mileage in the poignancy. The vice president (a candidate now running a curious race against himself: Al Gore the Plausible November Winner in a fight to the death against his evil twin, Al Gore the Truly Unbearable) scored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Call Off the Vultures — Er, Politicians | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...expect to be playing every day," Franey said. "The rain is really backing things up, forcing us to throw guys out of turn and mess up the rotation...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Felled By Bears, 5-1 | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...Madonna, what a mess! I like Fellini, but I think he's overdoing it this time. He is not, after all, an American director. I hope this movie ends soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Elian Saga High Drama or Just a Bad Movie? | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...With two-out, it's important not to think about it," Lentz said. "If you think about it too much, it will mess you up. The most important thing is just not to give up with two away...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Wins | 4/13/2000 | See Source »

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