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Unfortunately, again, premature and tragic deaths are not new to sports. On New Year's Eve 1972, in a visit to deliver disaster-relief supplies to his native Nicaragua, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash. Clemente had been named the World Series MVP the previous year and would become the first Hispanic player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame...
...McCain rapprochement. In the two months since Bush knocked McCain out of the primaries, relations between the victor and the vanquished have been awkward and tense, with anonymous aides trading acerbic barbs in the press. By the time the two men met in the Westin William Penn hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa., last Tuesday, negotiations had been going on for so long--practically since the day McCain dropped out--that both walked into the room with set lines to deliver. Bush congratulated McCain on his tough campaign, saying it had made him a better candidate, and McCain praised Bush...
...story of Cleopatra seems tailor-made for the ballet, with its epic themes of lust, love, empire, political conspiracy and tragedy. Created in conjunction with the Houston Ballet and the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Cleopatra does not shy away from any of these large themes. Choreographer Ben Stevenson, of the Houston Ballet, brings to the production much of the dramatic flair that characterized his staging of Dracula in Boston last spring, but Cleopatra ultimately rests on the skill of its dancers, and as such emerges as the superior production...
...John McCain hadn't taken himself out of the vice-presidential running for the twenty-seventh time on Tuesday, it was obvious that he and George W. Bush do not make a natural ticket. The pair looked like strange bedfellows indeed at their post-summit press conference in Pittsburgh Tuesday, visibly awkward as they stood at a double-wide podium and passed the spotlight back and forth in front of reporters. But all the things that needed to be said, got said. A lot. "I endorse Governor Bush, I endorse Governor Bush, I endorse Governor Bush, I endorse Governor Bush...
...George W. Bush and John McCain had to be the most high-profile, rancorous and riveting GOP battle in most party elephants' memory. Now it's Big Tent time, with the first of several planned grip-and-grin summits between the anointed and the heretic going down Tuesday in Pittsburgh. How do these two make it convincing? "They'll start by heaping praise on one another for the press, and will genially agree to disagree on whatever they have to," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. "McCain will take every opportunity to call Bush's proposals 'reform,' starting with...