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...numerical possibilities with a minimum of means. All right. I acknowledge the game's elegance. And, heaven knows, I'm a number freak. Attach a few of them to a pitcher's or batter's record, and I'm off in Rotisserie or SABRmetrics dreamland. Ahh, slugging percentage! Oooh, WHIP (walks plus hits divided by innings pitched)! Those numbers have meaning, personality, clout. They lend biographical nuance and historical comparison to the game of baseball...
...woman I interviewed grew up on a farm, and her mother used to beat her with a horsewhip. With a whip! That's the most horrific thing you can imagine. She's the prime example of, You can't forgive, but you can choose to forget. As this woman says, She's my mother, and I love her, and this is the most important thing, and I understand her history. I understand that she is doing to me what was done to her. A lot of these abusive mothers were abused. I believe that if this woman who was beaten...
...most celebrated voice, sent a two-sentence letter last week to his Democratic colleagues notifying them that he plans to run for majority leader if his party wins back the House. That's a direct challenge to the man who would be in line for the job, Democratic whip Steny Hoyer, a moderate who supported the war. And it solidifies the reinvention of Murtha, who turns 74 this week, as a public force in Democratic politics...
Murtha's candidacy puts House minority leader Nancy Pelosi in a particularly delicate position. Pelosi, a bulwark of her party's left wing who has her eye on becoming the first woman Speaker of the House, won the bitter 2001 race for Democratic whip by 23 votes over Hoyer--with Murtha as her campaign manager. They have stayed tight. But sources close to Pelosi say she had nothing to do with Murtha's surprising announcement; sources close to Hoyer suggest they don't believe that...
...calcium supplements are flooding the market, with sales of liquids and pills surging from $18 million in 1980 to $240 million last year. Those who gag on the tablets, which are huge gullet pluggers, can even try getting their mineral boost in a novel way -- EZ-CAL Soft Calcium Whip, an aerosol can filled with calcium foam that was introduced in test markets last week. In short, just about anything consumable has been laced with the stuff...