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...going to be easy explaining to your grandkid that the 1998 Yankees were the best team ever. It will be difficult to recount the starting lineup. After looking it up, you'll have to report that their World Series MVP was Scott Brosius, a guy who looks like he should be fixing your computer. None of the players were the best in their position in the American League. Tino Martinez wasn't even the best Martinez (Pedro, Boston). Or the second best (that would be Edgar, Seattle). No, Timmy, that wasn't the year Reggie Jackson was on the team...
...hard to imagine a place more different from dreary Belgrade. In an eighth-floor apartment above New York City's Central Park West, Richard Holbrooke slumps into a soft couch in his book-lined study to recount his latest diplomatic adventure. Sipping a Diet Coke and fielding phone calls while he talks, Holbrooke is clearly a man wired by more than caffeine. Back from the Balkans fewer than three days--and with a fragile peace in hand--he is answering calls of congratulations and patching up some final diplomatic work...
...have a car, Wolf's will prove tough to get to. If you're worried about the raised eyebrows you'll elicit from your armchair-liberal blockmates when you glowingly recount how great if felt to plug the silhouette on your target right between his beady little eyes, maybe you should stick to the Kevin Bacon game...
...event, which for the first time was officially recognized by the College, included poetry reading, singing of a traditional Native American song and a recount of atrocities committed by Columbus against Native Americans as indicated in his journals...
Inevitably, Brother Bill, whose small stipend of $20,000 is funded by the nonprofit Catholic Charities, has his critics. But not many. Some say he goes too easy on gangsters who recount their murderous acts to him without fear of betrayal, who borrow money from him and never pay him back, who curse, smoke and drink around him as if he were one of them. "He gives all his attention to the wrong people," gripes a Cabrini resident...