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Bruce Springsteen rubbed some men in blue raw at his tour-closing concerts at New York City's Shea Stadium. It was when he performed American Skin (41 Shots), his song about the 1999 killing of West African immigrant Amadou Diallo by four police officers. The N.Y.P.D. yanked his escort for the next few nights, claiming it had been, after all, only a courtesy. Springsteen didn't sing Skin in his next two outings, and--presto!--his police detail was restored. Did the champion of the workingman back down? Maybe he just appreciated anew the lyrics of his song Thunder...
Joel Stein wrote about the Detroit Tigers and their near-record-setting losing season [ESSAY, Sept. 29]. I don't know much about baseball, so you wouldn't think I'd care about the Tigers--but I do. Because to me, the team recalls summer nights at the old stadium and hot dogs and fireworks after the game. I don't care if they're the best team in the league or the worst. Statistics don't make baseball the national pastime; memories do. MOLLY SHANNON Southfield, Mich...
...Bill Mueller grounded out to second in Yankee Stadium, the few dozen Winthropians adhered to Waka’s red vinyl couches contorted their mouths into rictuses of despair and groaned theatrically. It wasn’t the Sox’s choking that troubled me; I don’t much like the Red Sox, and anyhow 20 years’ residency in Massachusetts has accustomed me to the self-pity-drenched meltdown that is a Red Sox postseason...
...council shouldn’t stop with Guster. If this event is a success, the Concert Commission should get bigger bands and take advantage of even larger venues across the River. The hockey rink and Soldier’s Field—the oldest reinforced concrete stadium in the world—would be great places to hold an ear-splitting rock concert...
...meeting will be the Crimson’s eighth against Lafayette, and the first since a 38-14 Crimson victory at Harvard Stadium in 2001. In seven previous meetings dating back to 1966, Harvard leads the series 5-2, winning the last...