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...given you a chance to win, instead of an actual win? This is Roger Clemens you’ve sent to the hill—not some run-of-the-mill, Game Four-type starter, but actually, according to the pitching setup in the Oakland series, your staff ace. Somehow, I think, you have to be hoping for a little better than five-and-out from your...
...because of the fact that he’s old as dirt, Clemens remains the sentimental favorite. Forget the fact that by this logic, Jamie Moyer might make an even better candidate than Clemens; Roger, somehow, remains the darling of the media. It’s enough to make me cringe in disgust. The playoffs aren’t supposed to figure into the balloting, but when I see guys like Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling—both of whom have dominated this October—contending for the same award as Clemens, it just doesn?...
Fox’s writing is sparse and measured, careful not to reveal too much, yet somehow seeming to reveal all. She acknowledges the limitations of her own memory, even while writing so confidently from it. “The room is always sunny in memory, though it must have rained and snowed some days,” she says of the Canadian finishing school where she was sent for a year. Her characteristic eye for detail is in full effect, and her snapshot portraits of people are often brilliantly perceptive. Of the actress Stella Adler, with whom Fox spent...
...support? America is preoccupied with Afghanistan. Only Colin Powell has the time to make telephone calls to Sharon. And telephone calls will not solve the problem. For Sharon's purposes, this is the proper time to achieve his aims against the Palestinians. Every time Israeli leaders get into trouble, somehow the Palestinians manage to do something that ends up helping them...
...It’s a bit like beer commercials filled with beautiful people. They of course can’t claim that drinking beer will make you look like these people any more than one can claim that Jesus’ teachings support war, but the hope is that somehow the viewer will associate drinking beer with beautiful people, religion with a war. When not quoted out of context or misused, the Bible calls for peacemaking and love. These words come from the war-making president’s alleged “favorite philosopher,” Jesus...