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...final out, thousands of Sox fans erupted in joy and a throng of ?B? hats lurched towards the Sox dugout. Players sprayed champagne and hugged their children and wives. The fans soaked up the victory - some hollered, some bawled their eyes out and some just stood gobsmacked by the sight of something that they thought they would never live...
...their team. By comparison to the scene at Yankees Stadium when the archrivals played, this was more like a college reunion. Until, of course, the inevitable moment during the celebration when Boston fans cast aside their manners and started chanting ?Yankees Suck!? The Yanks may have been out of sight, but they weren?t out of mind. One sign read: ?Plane Ticket: $350, Game Ticket: $750, The Yankees Watching the Sox in the WS: PRICELESS...
...sight of the John Harvard statue dressed in Red Sox gear, the chants and screams from excited friends and singing along with the band to “10,000 Men of Harvard”—though not exactly a Red Sox song—were a great experience...
...stacks the dramatic deck shamelessly. Its characters--as thin as mica flakes, especially the men--are very affluent, and it's set on Wisteria Lane, a picket-fence never-never land. We don't see women juggling home and career; there aren't any nannies or day care in sight. All this allows the show to be "brave" by indicting a clich of suburban life without really depicting how any of its viewers live...
...last thing Washington wants is to help someone like al-Sadr rise to power. "Sistani's the most moderate ayatullah in sight," says a Western diplomat in Baghdad, "and the U.S. needs to see eye to eye with him on basic political steps." That means the Bush Administration may have to accept that the version of democracy it went to war to create in Iraq may not be the one it gets. To achieve a stable, free Iraq, there's no going around the power--and preferences--of Grand Ayatullah Sistani. --With reporting by the Iraqi staff of TIME/Najaf, Massimo...