Word: rowing
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...hadn't we better get back to Mr. Jingles? He has befriended the death-row inmates and guards who are The Green Mile's core cast of characters (the Mile itself is a painted corridor the cons must walk to what is inevitably known as Old Sparky). Set in the deep, sleepy and racist South of 1932, the novel asks the question, What if a hulking but gentle and close-to-mute black man with a gift for Christlike healing were sentenced to die for the brutal kidnapping and murder-rape of two little white girls--crimes...
...nervous when he got to the Hill: "I mean, all the media were there. I think 12 or 15 Senators were there, all friends and supporters--Paul Simon, Pat Leahy, [Paul] Wellstone from Minnesota, Nancy Kassebaum, John Kerry from Massachusetts, Bob Kerrey from Nebraska--all there in the front row, two feet away from me. Like, right in my face, all sort of looking with great support and ready for me to say something pithy and impressive. And I felt the moment has come, and I'm bombing...
...whole point of baseball is to hold off the light of winter coming, at least to give it a shot. Only last week the Yankees' Darryl Strawberry, slumping and in need of personal redemption, hit three home runs in a row in a game with the White Sox, and was redeemed. First and last, baseball is about the individual. In other sports it is the ball that does the scoring. In baseball the person scores. The game was designed to center on people in their individual strivings...
...continuing avalanche of O.J. Simpson books by high-profile authors was thinned by one Friday when 'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss said he was abandoning his planned account of the trial. Given a front-row seat throughout the trial, McGinniss had planned to cover the story as the '13th juror' by avoiding other media coverage. But nearly a year after the event, McGinniss decided there wasn't a whole lot of there there. In a letter to his publisher explaining why he was ditching both the book and a $1.7 million advance, McGinniss said the trial "sapped my intellect...
...Buchanan, and media reports on the convention saying, "Dole Ascendency Marred by Buchanan Rabble-Rousing." But despite his colorful talk of pitchforks and rebellion in the past, Buchanan promised to be on good behavior today, joking that he would sit tight at his seat, which he referred to as "row 947, seats Y and Z." -->