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...ANALYZE A PERFORMANCE AFTER A GAME? I nitpick everything. If I throw a three-hitter and give up one run, I'll be trying to figure out how and why that run came in. It's the only way I can play the game. The night after a win, there's about 30 minutes of pure ecstasy, and that's the 30 minutes you're in the clubhouse with your teammates. And that goes away when I leave the park because I'm trying to figure out what I can do better five days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 QUESTIONS FOR CURT SCHILLING | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...nitpick? No way. After the turnaround they’ve enjoyed, there’s no time for that...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cavanagh's OT Winner Caps Three Goal Comeback, Locks Up Trip to Albany | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

...China and Tung Chee-hwa have kept meticulously to the letter of the agreements between London and Beijing. With a system that permits no effective opposition, why should they do otherwise? Are Washington and London, united with China in the fight on terror, going to nitpick over Article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subverting Hong Kong's Autonomy | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

Though viewers unfamiliar with Brecht’s work might find the abridged play difficult to follow and aficionados may nitpick the down-playing of certain themes, the work that emerges benefits from the alterations...

Author: By Michelle Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brecht’s ‘Ba’al’ Lights Up the Loeb Ex | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...these issues prominent." The American Civil Liberties Union complained after Breen Elementary School in Rocklin, Calif., posted a "God Bless America" message on a campus marquee, only to be roasted on the letters page of the local paper and likened to the Taliban. "Very few of us want to nitpick what is or isn't legal in this emotional moment," says Charles Haynes of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center. "But over the next few months, these actions will be challenged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letting God Back In | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

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