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...hankies. It’s time to focus on how we’re going to take down the Republican hegemony. Democrats are already fiercely debating whether Kerry and his Congressional buddies got hammered because they were too liberal or not liberal enough. Should we court the Democratic base or the moderate middle...
...keep-the-base-happy crowd note that, while Kerry hunted geese and reminisced about being an altar boy, Bush rode to victory by accentuating ideological differences and inspiring traditional Republicans. He beat us at our own game—turning out core supporters—while Kerry lost ground among women and African-Americans...
...flightier fellow Dominicans, Ramirez and Martinez. Ramirez plays left field, but that's more of an address than a position. On bad days, he fields fly balls like a Border collie, running left and right to herd the ball toward him. He can forget standard obligations: running to first base on a grounder, say. Last fall the Bosox offered him to any team that would eat the remainder of his $160 million contract--no takers. Lucky for Boston. Ramirez this year was calm and focused and hit a ton. "This team has a mentality that it will pick...
...promising young pitching prospect out of Washington and Lee University showed up for a tryout with the New York Giants (the baseball Giants, that is--they hadn't yet decamped for San Francisco). The prospect made a decent showing: three innings, three men on base, no runs scored. Good screwball, nice sinker, not much heat. "If somebody had offered me a Class D professional contract," says the prospect--whose name was Tom Wolfe--many decades later, "I would have gladly put off writing for a couple of decades...
...former members of the Baath party from much of public life, cutting off two major sources of Sunni influence. Coalition partners and allies have long warned that unless Sunnis can be persuaded to join the political process and participate in the elections, the community will provide a long-term base for an insurgency that could keep Iraq unstable for the foreseeable future. And if the military campaign to recapture the city further alienates Sunni Arab Iraqis, they may stay away from the polls regardless of who controls Fallujah. That's precisely what Yawer and others fear. Then again, there wasn...