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Like the many new Red Sox fans that have sprung up around Cambridge in the last week, your editorial on the Yankees is high in passion and vitriol, but wrong on many counts (Editorial, “Yankees Suck...
...their hero, those at RCA who don't like him or his music are biased against everyday people. He may be right. It's also possible that his denigrators love music--and the process of making music--far more than Aiken can imagine and that they resent having their passion marginalized by anyone with a telephone and a taste for Bee Gees medleys. "I don't know why people relate to me," says Aiken, "but my guess is that they're tired of beautiful, cookie-cutter pop stars. They don't believe them, and they don't trust them...
...person betrayed by opportunistic turncoats and backstabbers. The people who applauded her before the war?and they weren't only Germans?were the same ones who condemned her afterward. Her fascination with Adolf Hitler wasn't different from anyone else's at that time. In the prewar era, a passion for Hitler, whether it was blind faith or political maneuvering, was a common phenomenon. Was Riefenstahl's art fascist at that time? One must ask whether there ever was a country that didn't praise itself or its people. Isn't the human striving for godlike perfection, as captured...
Only when talk begins of last Saturday’s game, a monumental 28-20 win over No. 10 Northeastern, does the observer catch a glimpse of what drives McBurney on Saturday afternoons: that Alabama-bred, crazy-about-football passion...
Still, his passion for football continues to counter a personality that, off the field, is “laid back,” according to senior defensive end Brian Garcia...