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...games during the summertime. When I was probably six or so, I watched Pete Rose tie Ty Cobb's long-standing record for the most number of hits in a career, and I can say without doubt, that that event no more than ties for most intense moment of sheer jubilation I have ever witnessed from a crowd...
...ones with him in a hallway for other shows. MTV correspondent John Norris started to position Gore for a Q&A for the hit music countdown show "Total Request Live." As he did, Schiff, in black pants, red tank top and black-and-white sheer overshirt, stepped out of the dressing room. Her eyes popped as she saw the camera light go on and she made a beeline for an MTV staffer. Did we know about this? What's the question? she demanded. Assured that it was just an innocuous query on music - and one the Gore team knew about...
...Washington, D.C. (1967), a political thriller spanning the years 1937-52, the novel's hero, Peter Sanford, expresses irritable despair at the human condition as he has observed it in his treacherous hometown: "There was never a golden age. There will never be a golden age and it is sheer romance to think we can ever be other than what we are now." Now, 33 years later, Sanford pops up again as the protagonist of another Vidal novel, set in the same place and roughly the same time, and readers familiar with the author's career-long penchant for ironies...
...tribes of the Decided form. This is great in many ways--sheer liberation, democracy juiced up to a new dimension. But with a dangerous side effect. To be of the tribe of the Undecided is to belong to a bloodless, dying breed--you are shunned, held in contempt. To be Undecided means you are still looking, suspending judgment, still thinking. A culture balkanized by sound bite does not tolerate the ambivalent--which may mean it does not tolerate certain traditional processes of thought. In a world armed with speedy modems, reason tends to yield to instinct. I have always thought...
...This is the best group of fellows we've had in recent years," said Rob F. McCarthy '02, the Fellows program study groups chair, "due to the sheer extent and range of their life experiences...