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Because I attended the World Cup final on July 10 instead of going to work, I was fired from my job. But I have no regrets. Words cannot describe the feeling of standing in a stadium of 90,000 fans and cheering insanely as Brandi Chastain scored the winning goal. It was the most amazing event. I can always get another job, but witnessing that victory was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. JOHANNA T. DAVY, 16 Manhattan Beach, Calif...
Most of the 49,087 people in Yankee Stadium that Thursday night were too busy watching pitcher Roger Clemens get shelled by the Atlanta Braves to notice the man in the box seat near the Yankee dugout. Eating a Lemon Chill, sipping a Deer Park water and looking casual in a white polo shirt, he might have been easy to overlook, except, as usual, at least a few people quickly noticed. There was the television crew that spotted him and flashed his face to New Yorkers watching the game at home. As always, he looked striking on camera. After...
...Kennedy no doubt had a few things on his mind that night. He had gone straight to the stadium from his office at George magazine and was due back there the next day for another in a series of meetings with his publishing partners about the future of the young publication. And there was a big weekend ahead: after work on Friday, he planned to fly to Hyannis Port to attend the Saturday wedding of his cousin Rory. It was, of course, a wedding he would never make. About 9:40 the next night, J.F.K. Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette...
...good one. Six weeks before, he'd broken his ankle in a paragliding accident, and on Thursday morning, before his trip to the Yankees game, he'd at last had the cast removed. On Thursday night he was still limping as he negotiated the steps at the stadium, but by Friday he was getting around the George offices with the help of nothing but a cane...
...pretty safe bet that the little guy shown on your cover will grow up to trade in his bat and helmet for a stadium seat and a beer. The collusion between our educational system and professional sports is made possible because we parents fail to insist that our average children not be used as a source of supply for professional sports. DONALD WINZE New Berlin...