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...year David Wells threw his perfect game, a rookie Cubs pitcher named Kerry Wood struck out a record-tying 20 batters and the age-defying Roger Clemens, while in the employ of the Toronto Blue Jays at that stage of his pitcher-for-hire phase, became the first pitcher to strike out 18 or more batters in a game for the third time...
...close to winning? If Kate Winslet takes Best Actress this year, did Meryl Streep lose by just a handful of votes, or was it a wipeout? The five previous times Winslet was a runner-up, or the past 10 times when Streep was nominated but not called to the stage, was either star even within shouting distance? Which races were runaways over Oscar's 80 years, and which were photo finishes? Wouldn't you like to know? Wouldn't the show have a little more interest...
...though the city of Boston now permits street performing, there is no established organization that oversees the newly legal practice. For the price of $40 and the time it takes to complete a short application, almost anyone in Cambridge can turn the city streets into his or her own stage. “We don’t do an audition,” Weeks says. “We want to make [the program] as broad as possible. Anybody that professes to be a performer is entitled to be in public space doing their thing.”Even...
...going to take to the global stage at a critical time in history, you had better be on your game. Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa certainly wasn't at his best at a recent meeting of the G-7 group of industrialized nations in Rome. During a Feb. 14 news conference, Nakagawa went before the press in what appeared to be an inebriated state. While the cameras rolled, Nakagawa slurred out halting answers to questions, yawned and seemed on the verge of dozing off. He later said he wasn't drunk, blaming his bleary, wobbly performance on jet lag, cold...
Obama laughed. He knew better than anyone else that it would take some mighty brainpower--and luck and political genius--to get this next stage right. Orszag had been working the problem for months, leading a four-hour meeting on his birthday, Dec. 16, in Chicago, at which Obama showed up with a vanilla cake. Orszag, Summers, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Orszag's deputy Robert Nabors agreed that there was no avoiding a deficit this year of about $1.5 trillion, including the bank bailout and the stimulus bill. They were prepared to swim even deeper into the red next...