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...stumbled in 1997, were arguably the best team ever in 1998, and barely let up in 1999. They are playing for their third straight World Series crown - look at the last five years, and a Subway Series is just another occasion for the Yankees to dispatch their latest victim while saving on airfare. The recent Mets, meanwhile, have more spirit than stars, more of a habit of late-season collapses than of clutch play, and at best a talent for losing with admirable scrappiness. Until this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York, New York: The Subway Series | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...Musicians whose primary asset is their instrumental prowess - OK, guitarists - tend to fall victim to one or both of two mistakes when recording solo albums. The first is to assume that interesting guitar playing can somehow exist independently from interesting music; the second is to overcompensate for the previous assumption by focusing on the songs to the detriment of the hot licks that attracted people in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisiana Stories | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

Senator John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) did not sit with the family of Texas Gov. George W. Bush in St. Louis during last night's presidential debate. Instead, he watched from the comfort of a room at the Westin Hotel in Boston, the victim of a last-minute ruling by the Commission on Presidential Debates...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder and Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Commission Keeps McCain Out of Debate | 10/18/2000 | See Source »

Ozick blames everyone from Frank's father--who withheld parts of the diary from publication--to high school English teachers for eclipsing the dark, honest observations of the famous adolescent Holocaust victim...

Author: By Rachel E. Dry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ozick Speaks at Hillel | 10/18/2000 | See Source »

Harvard co-captain Anthony Barker was the first victim falling, 6-3, 6-2 at No. 6 singles to Tim Kofol. At the No. 4 slot, sophomore Oli Choo was handled by Portlock, who put him away...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Falls in Semis of ECAC Championships | 10/10/2000 | See Source »

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