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...swamped the mayor for autographs on their baseballs and shirts. Maybe it was all those free tickets he was giving away, or maybe it was this kinder, gentler version of Rudy, tossing grounders to the kids and giving them a chance to bat, that won them over. Mets' co-owner Fred Wilpon, who went to college on a baseball scholarship and has a mean arm, engaged the mayor in a pitching matchup, hurling a hardball at him, moving back farther and farther, throwing harder and harder, showing his stuff. But there wasn't anything Rudy couldn't catch and return...
Reporters who wouldn't know an offside trap from a lobster pot were now descending on the team's lone media rep demanding exclusives. David Letterman pronounced himself "team owner" and began plugging away. Even Tom Brokaw went West for an on-the-scene report...
...response to your special issue on Heroes and Icons [TIME 100, June 14], I would like to point out that 100 years of American dominance in the fields of science, technology, entertainment and business do not make America the "owner" of the 20th century. Many Asian nations have come into their own in the past 100 years. This makes it our century, too, a period when we have fought for freedom and gained our independence. This century should stand as the one in which new independent nations were born in Asia. JEWELLYN DIZON Makati City, the Philippines...
MICHAEL MANNICHEWITZ No known party, New York Resume: Lawyer, notary, judge, security guard Relevant experience: Stated jobs include biblical agent for Noah, Joshua, Job, Jesus, Eleazar; spy for Britain, France, U.S. and Vatican City; owner, Barnum & Bailey Circus; former King Platform: Not announced...
...What caused me to write Harvard officials was [the site owner] got a year-book picture of my sister, who was 17 years old at the time, all sorts of suggestive, derogatory remarks about her and the address of my parents," said John Vranesvich, who ran the rival site, AntiOnline.com...