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...been handling the Hindenburgian flameout of my beloved baseball team, the New York Mets. I'm O.K. Really. I've been through worse... even though this was, well, awful beyond imagining. The losses-seven straight to the crude, macho Phillies, then 12 out of 17 down the stretch. The incessant errors. The pitchers throwing cantaloupes to hitters who didn't belong in the majors. The mental errors that weren't scored as errors. The feeling, in the end, that no lead was safe because-no lead was safe. The realization that every walk surrendered, even a two-out walk with...
...competitive,'" he explains. "'There was nothing I could do to control it.' It has nothing to do with the fact that he's lazy and unqualified." You can do the same thing here. The Phillies are a team of destiny. Sure, the Mets didn't play well down the stretch, sure they made 21 errors over the last 17 games. But gosh, give those Phils credit: They went 13-4 in those final games. Really, who could stop them? (Answer: a team that did any better than 5-12 in those same 17 games...
...score even at 4 following three Dartmouth errors and snagged the lead on a block by Trimble. The Big Green followed with a 6-0 run to take a 10-5 lead into a Harvard timeout. The Crimson chipped away at the lead, putting together a 7-3 stretch of its own and pulling within one point of Dartmouth, 13-12, after a kill by senior Mimi Hanley. Though flirting with the lead, the Crimson was on the wrong end of a Big Green 12-4 run that afforded Dartmouth a 25-16 lead. The Big Green maintained that lead...
...They had planned on her moving to Denmark to take advantage of a government program designed to draw much needed doctors. But last July, Minikel was promoted at her U.S. hospital to the coveted post of residency director. So in October, Balle will visit for five weeks--the longest stretch they've ever spent together. She hopes he'll eventually move to the Bay Area. For now, they're keeping their passports handy...
...last thing they need is more work. There were 73,202 accidents on the roads of Greater São Paulo last year and 1,487 fatalities. The situation is exacerbated when emergency vehicles get tangled in backups that can stretch for 100 miles (160 km) at rush hour. The congestion is so bad that the city forbids 1 in 5 cars, depending on license-plate number, from leaving home at peak travel times each day. But the streets are still a mess. "Ambulances often simply can't get through," says Carlos Eid, a doctor with the Brazilian Association...