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...return not to seek redemption, to try to rewrite my own saga, or simply to report another pair of hockey games...
...thus continued the sad saga of the Red Sox,losers of four straight seven-game WorldSeries--1946, 1967, 1975 and 1986. In fact, theRed Sox have not won a Series since 1918, whenBabe Ruth was still with the club...
...saga ended last Thursday, as Hammer's jet carried the Goldfarbs to a reunion with their son at Newark Airport. Kremlin watchers could only speculate why Soviet leaders, days after the summit, allowed the Goldfarbs to leave. Weary, pale and on a stretcher, the white-haired 67-year-old scientist offered his explanation: "A miracle happened...
...prevailing literary wind this fall is from the Southeast. The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy's high-blown family saga of coastal South Carolina, began to stir interest in May at the American Booksellers Association convention in New Orleans. Introduced by Walter Cronkite, Conroy regaled publishing executives and retailers with funny stories about his career and family. With just the right amount of country-boy shuffle, he told how his father, a rough Marine Corps fighter pilot, and his mother, a genteel Georgia beauty, gave new meaning to the word incompatibility. Conroy reminded everyone that his father was the model...
...time to put the best possible face on defeat. The two fierce rivals and captains of cheap U.S. air travel sat at opposite ends of a table last week in Manhattan's St. Regis- Sheraton hotel to announce what many had expected: the long, tortuous People Express saga had ended with the airline's tentative sale to rapidly expanding Texas Air. The price: a bargain $125 million. At the same time, Texas Air will buy People's grounded subsidiary, Frontier Airlines, for $176 million. The complex deals, which come in the wake of several other big airline mergers, could mark...