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Still, the atmosphere at historic Fenway Park lacked what one would expect on a night in which the home team could clinch a division title. The crowd was late-arriving and the fans didn't get very excited until the bottom of the seventh, despite the fact that Erik Hanson was pitching a no-hitter through five innings...
...seventh, though, the crowd was more into it, including the three people in my section that showed up at the sixth inning...
...equally valid symbol of the tribe's future fortunes, at least at this particular historical juncture, can be found 19 miles away at Wounded Knee, where a band of peaceful Sioux were mowed down by the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in 1890. Here is a man in ragged, dirty jeans and a filthy red T shirt. His face is puffy and pockmarked, and there is liquor on his breath. His hand outstretched, he claims he is the caretaker of the Oglala Sioux cemetery...
...nine children born to poor folk in Top Hill. He literally came to America on a banana boat, a United Fruit Co. steamer that docked in Philadelphia. He went to work for Ginsburg's (later named the Gaines Co.), manufacturers of women's suits and coats at 500 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan's garment district. He started out working in the stock room, moved up to become a shipping clerk, and eventually became foreman of the shipping department...
...Democrats' dim chances to recapture the Senate next year faded even more when Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell, 76, one of the chamber's most liberal members, said he would retire at the end of his current term. He becomes the seventh Demo crat to announce he will step down, a number that now endangers the Democrats' ability even to retain enough seats to sustain a filibuster...