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...rebuke so stinging that there is question whether the Pentagon's new policy of "Don't ask, don't tell" will be able to withstand constitutional scrutiny. "America's hallmark has been to judge people by what they do, and not by who they are," wrote Chief Judge Abner Mikva. "It is fundamentally unjust to abort a most promising military career solely because of a truthful confession of a sexual preference different from that of a majority, a preference untarnished by even a scintilla of misconduct...
Ever since Abner Doubleday tossed out the first pitch in Cooperation around 1860, the key to success at baseball has been pitching and defense, pitching and defense, pitching and defense...
...politicians routinely vie with each other for the Li'l Abner prize for most humble, most miserable upbringing. The Democrats in Madison Square Garden were no exception. After four days of speeches a foreign visitor could be forgiven for thinking indoor plumbing was a Reagan-era innovation...
...help but feeling that my mother was right. If peer pressure forces Calvin into baseball hysteria, I hope his mom can provide the same kind of voice of reason to remind him constantly of the cosmic silliness of Abner Doubleday's monster creation...
...every season brought a landmark production, often two or three. The 1946-47 season that introduced Brigadoon, for example, also provided Finian's Rainbow. The 1956-57 season of My Fair Lady was, in addition, the season of Bells Are Ringing, Candide, The Most Happy Fella and Li'l Abner. The 1960-61 debut season of Camelot saw as well the arrival of Irma la Douce, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Bye Bye Birdie...