Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want ESPN's greatest athlete of the century to be Muhammad Ali, followed by Jordan as a close second. Babe Ruth should be third and Jim Brown fourth. Those athletes have been announced as their final four. I would have maybe had Wayne Gretsky or Jesse Owens ahead of Brown, but hey, they're all great...
...MARK MCGWIRE and SAMMY SOSA It wasn't as exciting the second time around, but it was more impressive. Roger Maris disappeared into a career of poor stats after he broke Babe Ruth's record, but these guys nearly matched their '98 feats, McGwire with 65 homers and Sosa with...
...Rose: the player called Charlie Hustle running out walks, hurling himself head first to take an extra base, and breaking the most venerable record in baseball--Ty Cobb's 4,191 hits. Those memories are vivid, etched into our baseball consciousness, along with the exploits of immortals like Cobb, Ruth, Robinson and Mays, in whose Hall of Fame company Rose arguably belongs...
...play, comes across as static as Mike is irritatng. In general, Glassman seems to have a poor grasp of his character. Dick seems more like a modern Middlebury student wearing tie-die over his J. Crew than the hippie he was written as. The women--Ruth (Shapiro) and Cathy (Shani)--are mopey and whiney respectively. In fact, the most tolerable character is Norman (Tom Miller '03), the math graduate student without social skills...
There are still hurdles. Traditional mental-health professionals are more focused today on drug therapies than on social rehabilitation. Ruth Hughes argues that the profession's "belief system" still contains "the idea that people with schizophrenia never get better." Insurance companies have been slow to be convinced that these programs work and will ultimately save money. And many employers still resist hiring the mentally ill. American Postcard's Castaldo recalls telling a fellow businessman "how well I'm doing with handicapped people." The man was interested, Castaldo relates, "but when I mentioned mental health, a wall came down...