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...Reds are a despicable team. Really any fan from any National League city other than Cincinnati can tell you that. After all, if you pile up 108 victories in a season you simply have to offend a lot of fans around the senior circuit...
Kubacki slides a pile of notebooks, folders, papers and envelopes to the center of his neat desk in Leverett Tower. "This," he says, "is football...
...Coliseum was an unspectacular, partially sunken concrete pile. Our $3 tickets put us in the sparsely populated third deck, high above the action. At those prices few kangaroos go to A's games. Nor do many Bay Area residents either, since the three-time defending World Champion A's annually struggle to gain one million fans...
...police interrogation, Katherina shows herself to have been ignorant of her lover's legal status. But from then until Katherina's murder of the newspaperman who has hounded her since the beginning of the case, the web of facts breaks apart in a cascade of "allegedly"s. The ambiguities pile up quickly: The reporter even records a full page of argument between a cook and a secretary about whether their employer will have crepes with poppy seed or creme Brulee for Sunday breakfast. The dispute is never properly settled. The question, "Who did what to whom?" that was asked...
Haruo's grueling day is not uncommon in Japan, where a child's chances for future success in politics, business or the professions depend heavily on the prestige of his gakureki-literally, his academic background. One index of the increasing pressure on young Japanese to pile up an impressive gakureki is the phenomenal rise of after-hours or weekend schools known as juku. Their main purpose: to help students cram for tough competitive entrance exams required to get into the most select high schools and the best colleges...