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...LINE: Risky bet. That snub in the S.C. primary may have shot his chance at this ticket...
...LINE: Long shot. An influence broker on the ticket could hurt McCain's reformist...
...miss. (It's the least the network could expect for the $6 billion it has ponied up to broadcast the event for just over a decade.) But for secular audiences, those first few days are also when March Madness is at its maddest, when little schools get their one shot at Goliath. Most will miss, but a few will stun the odds and themselves and in their ragged glory remind us of just how satisfying it can be to hold a slingshot...
...journalist intent on capturing the suffering of the Vietnamese during the war, Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths was at first a hard sell in the U.S. Thanks in part to a lucrative shot of Jackie Kennedy in Cambodia, he kept working. His now classic 1971 book, Vietnam Inc., with its unprecedented texture and detail, dramatically influenced Americans' perception of the war. Griffiths, who had been in poor health...
...made me think about getting my fitness level higher and being able to throw more pitches.”Remembering that teammate Jeff Stoeckel had done some offseason training at Jeter’s facility in Tampa between his sophomore and junior seasons, Haviland decided to give it a shot. Working out with Jeter and Ryan Howard—“probably the biggest guy on the planet,” Haviland wagers—committed the righty to an offseason experience unlike any he’d had before. “They absolutely got after...