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...Stubborn. It’s a good way to describe a lot of Met fans, especially at this time of year. Real Met fans have realized that the vast majority of Yankee fans are obnoxious jerks. We’ve realized that the presence of the Yankees makes finding counterfeit Met caps at the corner store impossible and that there is nothing fun about being treated like a second-class citizen in your own city because you wear the orange and blue. So we’ve learned to root against the Yanks in the postseason, and you can tell...
...sure he knows that he can’t fake it, that he’s a Met fan at heart and can’t bring himself to root for the Yankees, even if it will make them lose. He’s stubborn that way, like...
...know that old line about how South America is the continent of the future - and always will be? Economists have been learning all year that the near-term recovery they?ve been expecting all year has had a stubborn way of being constantly rescheduled for next quarter, next year, 2003. And Greenspan was careful to point out that the kind of security and terrorism-response-readiness spending on which the government and private sector alike are currently fixated is definitely not the kind of productivity-enhancing investments by which new booms are born...
...boiling water and stockpiling gold coins in hopes of riding out some vast calamity that will devastate the unprepared while leaving savvy country folk untouched. That was the vision, at least, until last month, when the attacks on New York City and Washington proved to all but the most stubborn of mountain dwellers that that's not the way it's going...
...more accurately, this is the conservative punk perspective. Of course, it’s almost absurd to mention conservatism and punk music in the same breath, but that’s the very point we hope to make. In order to battle a stubborn social and commercial hierarchy, the punks are forced to adopt their own equally stubborn and doctrinaire ethic about what should and should not be done. Within the punk culture, the political spectrum is inverted, but equally rigid: The hard-nosed right of the punk movement, the purists, hold all of the principles we?...