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Ironically, the high exchange rate and the condescending attitude that brought Red Sox fans so much pleasure that day may, in the long run, ensure that St. Catherine’s Street will never again erupt with chants of “Yankees suck!” at three in the morning. The same exchange rate that brought Red Sox fans cheap liquor is pressuring one unprofitable Canadian sports franchise after another to scurry across the border. And the misperception that the Expos’ fan base is inadequate, believed by all levels of the corporate hierarchy, will prevent...

Author: By David R. De remer, | Title: POSTCARD FROM MONTREAL: Boston Invaders Turn Heads | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...they treated me wonderfully," Faxon says. "The club captain gave me a necktie, and said I could play there any time, the rest of my life. They realized what I was doing. I?ll tell you, once you?re established in this game, it does kind of make you suck up your ego to be playing a qualifier, but those folks made me feel just great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brad Faxon?s Odd Odyssey | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...birth, Hope Guthrie had clubfeet; she would not suck. The doctor said, "There are a few little things we want to look at, but it's not Down's or anything." It was in fact far worse. Zellweger devastates essential bodies called peroxisomes in every cell. Zellweger newborns are severely brain damaged, often blind and deaf, unable to take food orally. Nancy asked whether the syndrome was fatal. The doctor replied, "There's no cure, and there's no treatment." That night David crawled into Nancy's hospital bed. They prayed, "God, our hearts are broken, but we still want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When God Hides His Face | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...good night, he can make $80 in profit. Somkid, a dancer in a nearby go-go bar, says her foreign boyfriends-for-the-night are revolted when they see her scarfing down scarab beetles. But as she plucks the legs off a locust so she can suck out its eggs, Somkid claims her dietary habits have never cost her a customer. "Why should it? They're delicious," she says. "Foreigners eat some pretty strange things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Craving the Crawlies | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...fact, Bush is having to suck up to (rather than cajole) allies on the Hill. His team is still nervous about the post-Jeffords landscape. Moderate Republicans still require a lot of tending, and in recent days conservatives have been bucking and snorting. Vice President Cheney has been sent on two missions to smooth feathers and Bush makes a trip to the Hill this week to do the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Trade Comes to the White House, Again | 7/11/2001 | See Source »

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