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BASEBALL'S BOOMER STARTS SOME RUMORS Hard-throwing, hard-drinking Yankees pitcher DAVID (BOOMER) WELLS is causing a ruckus with a tell-all memoir due out this week, Perfect I'm Not! In 1998 Wells threw a perfect game--hence the title--but in Perfect I'm Not! he says he did it "half drunk, with bloodshot eyes, monster breath and a raging, skull-rattling hangover" after a night spent partying with the cast of Saturday Night Live. He also claims that "between 25% and 40%" of Major League players use steroids. Wells, who says he may soften up some...
Trent Lott's capitulation, stepping down as Senate majority leader when the ruckus over his remarks at Strom Thurmond's 100th-birthday party simply wouldn't go away, ended a very rough patch for the Republicans. And Tennessee Senator Bill Frist spared the party another potential battle when he quickly locked up the votes to replace Lott. But it may take longer to heal relations between Senate Republicans and the White House, whose heavy hand in the affair has both Lott supporters and opponents on Capitol Hill grumbling...
...colicky, cranky, crying baby: new parents' biggest bugbear. In his new book, this L.A. pediatrician says the problem may be too much quiet. By re-creating the biological ruckus of the mother's womb, including constant movement and the swooshing sound of blood flow, you can set off any baby's "calming reflex." Follow the "five S's," says Karp: 1) Swaddle the baby (using Karp's special tight technique); 2) place the baby on his side or stomach; 3) shush him loudly; 4) swing or bounce him rhythmically; and 5) give him something to suck on. Even dads...
...ended in closure - or, as the French say, cloture. Arguments at the Cannes Film Festival are usually about which film deserved to win or whether the blindingly bright days in this Riviera Eden are just a smidge too cool. This time the world impinged on the art. The ruckus began just before the festival, when the American Jewish Congress called for a near-boycott on grounds of French anti-Semitism. That charge was answered on opening day when Woody Allen, France's favorite U.S. auteur, showed up to say he loved the French and commended them for voting the straight...
...little over a year ago, Fong, a Crimson editor, wrote an endpaper for this magazine. His opus for Fifteen Minutes, “The Invasian,” was one of the most ruckus-raising pieces of writing ever published on this campus. Protesters said The Crimson had published a poor piece of unnecessarily inflammatory journalism. Fong himself was inundated with e-mail. His article was widely circulated around the nation, sometimes with choice—and he says unfair—comments prefacing it. The Crimson published an apology that earned both ire and praise from all over...