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Cowardly Wilpons
I have to say that I had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach when Willie Randolph signed on to be manager of the Mets. Willie had worked so hard and strove so many years for an opportunity to manage, enduring endless interviews. When the opportunity came it was in New York and…
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Tiger is . . . soft
Let me put it this way: It’s not like he was being tackled as he hit the little white ball into the hole in the ground. So, please, spare me the fist pumps and all the other histrionics. He may very well be a phenomenal, even a freak of a golfer. I’ll grant him that.…
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Moon in Jupiter!
When I first read this I thought, surely, somebody’s got to be joking. I mean, it’s good of the former vice-president to make an endorsement when it would actually make a difference. I’m tired, busy, and, did I mention tired? I don’t have time for Al Gore’s nonsense. Whoopty damn do! I don’t want to…
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From kingnetic
1. NBA. I’m thinking beyond the hurt and pain to ninja-like revenge for the absolute extension of corporate corruption to (no surprise) the anti-trust-exempted NBA. I’ve been trying to think back, through my well-known cynicism, to all the unexpected extensions of conference and final playoffs. Back then, during slow moments in the action, my twisted…
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Tim Kaine of Virginia
Va. governor could help fill gap for Obama: Centrist seen as dark horse among VP possibilities By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff, June 12, 2008 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – He is the popular governor of a critical swing state. He has working-class roots and a Harvard degree, and strong support from both business and labor. He…
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A fine pig
Pig in Boots: The world’s only porker who is afraid of mud By Beth Hale, June 10, 2008 You can’t get much happier than a pig in muck, or so we are told. But when this little piggy arrived in the farmyard she showed a marked reluctance to get her trotters dirty. While her six…
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SPECIAL REPORT ON RWANDA: 1 Dies Every Minute
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Tuesday, July 26, 1994 GOMA, Zaire – The skies here were darkened by aircraft yesterday bearing desperately needed food and medical supplies to Rwandan refugees dying at a rate of one per minute in the squalid camps below. But the water purifiers needed to combat the…
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Oh, McCain
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McCain's first wife
From the Daily Mail in London, UK: The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind, By SHARON CHURCHER, June 08, 2008 McCain with Carol as he arrives back in the US in 1973 after his five years as a PoW in North Vietnam Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the…
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RWANDAN CRISIS-HORROR OF THE CHILDREN: Thousands Are Dying, More Are Orphaned
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Wednesday, July 27, 1994 GOMA. ZAIRE – Her tiny torso was wrapped in dirty rags. No one knew her name, where she came from or what became of her parents. She could not have been more than 6 months old. Last week French soldiers at Goma…