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...Sununu waged a last-minute telephone campaign out of Scowcroft's offices that went on into the evening of Sept. 11. They were trying both to seek a compromise and to take the measure of the Israel lobby's pre-emptive strike. The next morning Bush made a final pitch in the Oval Office to Mayer Mitchell, a leader of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the largest pro-Israeli lobby. When Mitchell proved to be noncommittal, Bush decided to move...
With relief ace Jeff Reardon unable to pitch because of a stiff neck, Harris stayed in the game and gave up Ripken's tying single. Harris walked Milligan, loading the bases, and then walked Evans, losing the game...
...Reunion des Musees Nationaux on a series of retrospectives of the great French artists of the 19th century. Edouard Manet in 1983; Vincent van Gogh in 1984 and 1986; Paul Gauguin, Gustave Courbet and Edgar Degas in 1988; Claude Monet in 1990 -- all these, done at the highest pitch of curatorial skill, have redefined the School of Paris...
...week later, another box of ribs arrived--this time a real pitch. Nobody touched them...
Some athletes use hostile emotions to catapult themselves into fiercer play. Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dave Stieb is one. "It might allow me to throw my next pitch harder or concentrate harder," he says. Others cultivate anger as part of their game preparation. Sports psychologist Bruce Ogilvie of Los Gatos, Calif., recalls that one great football defensive end, now retired, worked himself up for Sunday competition by starting to fantasize on Thursday that his opponent had raped his wife...