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Pick a moment, any moment, to remember: Jones' second home run in Game 1, Torre's heart-to-heart talk with David Cone in Game 3, Steve Avery's 3-2 pitch to Wade Boggs with the bases loaded in the 10th inning of Game 4, the rope by Luis Polonia that froze an entire nation with two outs in the bottom of the ninth of Game 5--and the wall-banging celebration of Paul O'Neill after he caught the ball at the last instant. Best of all, there was the just reward for Torre after 37 years...
...problem is that Dole can't seem to decide how to take Clinton on. "I hear a lot of contrary advice from men and women along the rope lines,'' he conceded last week. One of those women, Carol Higgins of Palos Park, Illinois, pleaded with Dole: "When are you going to put the boxing gloves on" and give President Clinton "what he deserves?" Dole giggled as his fans clapped and whooped...
...know, that sport where some guy stands on a platform and lets go of this wooden bird that has a dart in its mouth and the bird swings down on a rope and hits a target and everyone cheers (boy that's a mouthful...
Long ago in China, Knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been order outlaw knot-maker...
...self-flagellation," says TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "Like a hunger strike, the point is to bring attention to the Palestinian complaints. Itself, it is not a major event, but it telegraphs the fact that the Palestinians have reached the end of their rope. Arafat has tried to be extremely reticent in his reactions to Netanyahu's attempts to destroy the peace process, but has reached the point where he could not avoid some sort of challenge and confrontation instead of waiting and praying that things would get better. So far, the Palestinian response has been words...