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...seems possible to be a fan of a team that's based far from where you have ever lived, but I suspect the origins of my obsession are more common. I didn't have much choice in the matter. Both my parents were born in tiny row houses a stone's throw from Liverpool's stadium. My father took me to my first game as a small child, and from the moment I saw what was behind the familiar exterior--All those people! That wall of noise! The forbidden, dangerous smells of cigarettes and beer!--I was hooked...
...wouldn't be wrong to call In the Shadow of the Law a legal thriller, but it would sell the book short. There are suspenseful, devious plots aplenty--one about a last-minute death-row appeal, another about a corporation's dodging blame for an industrial accident--but it's Shadow's cast of characters, largely overworked junior lawyers, that will keep you up at night. Roosevelt (a descendant of Theodore and a former Supreme Court clerk) writes about the law more passionately and entertainingly than anyone since Scott Turow...
...Crimson was well on its way to doing just that, capturing four in a row over Cornell, Columbia, Penn, and Princeton. But when Brown came to town, the Bears worked Harvard over...
...Crimson could not make it two in a row, and its season came to an end with a 2-1 loss in the snow and sleet of Storrs, Conn...
...teammates swarmed him, all sweat and smiles, it was different. I waited in the front row by the dugout for him to come to me, reached up and wrapped my arms around his neck, and told him how proud...