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...couldn't join in. I was thinking about the innocent people who had been there in Yankee Stadium. They're thrilled now. They can't foresee the scene at the neighborhood tavern when they casually acknowledge having witnessed David Wells' perfect game and some wise guy at the other end of the bar says, "I guess you were at the game when Bobby Thompson hit his home run too. And, listen: to someone who was in the stands, did it really look like the Babe pointed at the centerfield wall before he put one over...
...That's a crew full of wise guys right there," says Officer Branley...
...suggested it so they could e-mail each other. "What do I need that for?" Capellini asked his son. "I was very apprehensive at first. You know, the older you get, the more conservative you get, and I thought it might break my computer." But Steve convinced his penny-wise dad that e-mail was cheaper than phone calls. Soon he got a message from his dad: "Steve, I did it! I'm online...
Those students who have been skipping lectures for the past three months out of sheer resentment would be wise to attend classes this week. As instructors hand out feedback forms for the Committee on Undergraduate Education Course Evaluation Guide, students finally have their chance to rant or rave on paper about everything that has been making their academic lives into heaven or hell and inform their peers appropriately...
...Cherry, hints at the spirit of Iran's vital new cinema: knowing, poignant, as simple and universally significant as an Aesop fable. Kiarostami, who is Iran's leading director (Through the Olive Trees) and screenwriter (The White Balloon), tells his tales with the grace and gravity of a wise old man in a village square. Taste of Cherry, which won the top prize at Cannes last year, is the finest of his shaggy-man stories...