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Some have interpreted Oklahoma City as a kind of Reichstag fire, the rube militias being the embryos of an American Nazism. That is overheated; anyway, why go abroad for bad news? The real precedents are homegrown. Years ago, D.H. Lawrence, making his way through American literature, fell upon Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo and pronounced, "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer." A fancy line, but true only of a certain whip-mean conscienceless strain in the American character. It is not a bad description of the Oklahoma City suspect's eyes...
...York correspondent Adam Cohen traced DreamWorks' boldly unorthodox web of financing, from Wall Street, where Chemical Bank extended a $1 billion line of credit, to the West Coast, where the California Public Employees Retirement System was considering an investment. The closest Cohen--"a movie fan but a Hollywood rube"--had ever come to a movie studio was when he worked as a civil rights lawyer in Lafayette, Alabama, which had been used as a location for Mississippi Burning. Now here he was, having lunch with Ressner and the DreamWorks principals on the Universal...
...Nielsen Top 10 after being moved to the high-profile time period following Seinfeld--a group of indolent twentysomethings seems to have unlimited time for gab and games of Pictionary. Pig Sty, which made its debut in January on the new UPN network, revolves around five mismatched roommates (a rube from Iowa, an Italian mama's boy, a guitar-playing layabout and so on) trying to get along in the same cramped New York City apartment--a task that is especially hard since they all seem to be home all the time. The title character in ABC's Ellen runs...
...entire ECAC race looks like a roller coaster of Rube Goldberg proportions: on any given night, any given team not only can beat anybody else, but probably will. And you don't have to cite statistics, records, polls or quotations (although I probably will) to realize this stark truth: Harvard could easily finish anywhere from first to seventh or eighth in conference play this year...
...player-owner conflicts that go back more than a century (the reserve clause that prevented players from switching teams was hated even in the 1880s); and the long struggle to achieve racial integration. Baseball celebrates great hitters like Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, great characters like Casey Stengel and Rube Waddell (who had to be restrained from chasing fire engines during games), great disasters like the Merkle Boner and the 1919 Black Sox scandal. It gives us Red Barber's famous radio calls, Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine and more versions of Take...