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...side." Tony LaRussa, his manager at both the A's and the Cardinals, says McGwire has a unique ability to "control his emotions, to stifle them." His best friend on the team, catcher Tom Lampkin, says McGwire "has such control on the mental side. He doesn't let things stew inside him. He puts a cap on it." So as McGwire shattered the most famous record in sports with 70 homers in a season, he didn't embrace the conflict; he transcended...
...children's book would be merely a paragraph of declarative sentences without the art: the most important part of the stew. Although there are as many illustration styles as there are ways to mess up a room, Wade Zahares' work looks fresh and sprightly, perhaps because this is his first book for kids. There's nothing to the story: a girl and her mom go to the city on a train and pass a whole lot of scenery (or window music). But the densely colorful, chalky pictures make the story a journey worth remembering. No wonder kids love trains...
...Beef Oxtail. The meat was unbelievably tender, the kind of tender where you practically don't have to chew. It had a piquant, peppery flavor with a full-bodied beefy sauce that can only be produced through hours of patient simmering. Very tasty. Also quite good was a chicken stew that was bizarrely Germanized on the menu as "Chicken Stroganoff." The chicken was smothered in a garlicky cream sauce with a surprising dash of ketchup that added a tangy touch-as well as a funky pinkish color. The buffet also included something called Black Beans Stew...
...stew which results form mixing these ingredients together is dynamic, sometimes astonishingly so. But the Harvard terrain can be very difficult to navigate, especially for those students who find themselves here without guidelines for the first time in their life, or who lack the great self-confidence of so many of their peers...
...federal courthouse Tuesday: Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale stepped down from the witness stand after six days of witty one-liners and folksy banter. His parting shot: How the Microsoft-Apple deal, which made Internet Explorer the default browser on every Mac, made him feel. "It irritated the stew out of me," said Barksdale. In notes released by the Justice Department, Apple's chief financial officer says Apple was "dead" unless it made Explorer the default. The government?s next witness, Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, has a tough act to follow...