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There are some who say that Atlanta cannot be considered a great team, or the Braves' Bobby Cox a great manager, if they can squeeze only one world championship out of eight consecutive first-place finishes. They forget that the Orioles' Earl Weaver, generally acknowledged to be the best manager of the post-expansion era, pulled only one championship out of six firsts, and he never had to chain-smoke his way through three rounds of play-offs. Cox could have retired last Friday and history would recognize him as the outstanding manager that...
...them healthy. Pitching coach Leo Mazzone, who has been at Cox's side for the entire decade, says, "Pitchers are cared for here." Other teams, he says, "blame their pitchers--'Oh, we lost it on our pitching.' Those are the teams that won't be in a World Series anytime soon." Seven of the past eight National League Cy Young Awards sit on Atlanta mantelpieces, which is not only unprecedented but nearly unfair...
...Grill in Lynchburg, Va., and he turned 66 last summer, but friends say he hasn't let up on his schedule. This morning he's speaking to 1,500 cheering students at Liberty University, the college he founded in 1971 that has become the largest evangelical college in the world. "Jesus is awesome!" they shout, many faces contorted with...
...today's celebrity-obsessed world, it may never be too early to start your children on learning their stars--and we're not talking astronomy. See if you (or the kids!) can match these celebrity children's authors and their new books! 1. MARIO CUOMO; 2. MARIA SHRIVER; 3. DEBORAH NORVILLE; 4. BOB DYLAN...
...most excitement anyone here can remember since the days when the brothels and taverns of Keystone lured coal miners on payday and when trains stopped here to give G.I.s one last fling on their way to World War I. But the town's most enduring legend is its 95-year-old bank. As it boasts on the side of its building, the institution is "time-tried, panic-tested," a survivor of the Great Depression...