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...head." Meanwhile the team's slugger was Reggie Jackson, an emerging black superstar who the previous year had hit four home runs in the World Series with four successive swings of his bat. The irrepressible Jackson, who had an IQ of 160 and quoted Frost fluently from behind his mirror shades, is the book's hilarious, hyperverbal hero. He once baffled a reporter with this spitball of a question: "If my team loses a big one, and I strike out with the winning runs on base, are you aware that 1 billion Chinese don't care...
Cold-eyed investors have made good money betting against the U.S. economy over the past year. Amid persistent weakness, bonds have soared while the dollar and stocks have plunged. But nothing lasts forever. Bullish investors learned that lesson three years ago when, with both eyes on the rearview mirror, they slammed into the back of a braking economy...
...Israel on the country's Independence Day holiday; and Yasmine, about a Palestinian woman who participated in her sister's honor killing. By making his new film with Palestinian producers, Hassan found he could get closer to the truth about his own community. "Other Palestinians face you like a mirror," he says. "So the reflection is immediate." Once Palestinians can look into that mirror, he believes, they'll finally be able to face the Israelis...
...knew how evil the system was, but we all had to make our pact with it. In a sense it wasn't about being part of the system or not. Most were. It was about not becoming an asshole. It was, 'Can I still bear seeing myself in the mirror?'" Hrebejk isn't sure that Czechs should have done more to fight the communists who governed them for 40 years. "A Yugoslav classmate of mine once told me, 'You Czechs don't know how to fight for your own thing,'" he says. "Now look at what resulted from fighting...
Blair Hornstine’s behavior has held a mirror up to the Harvard community, a mirror that has reflected all that is bad—tempered by none of what is good—about the ambition that lands many of us here...