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...lowest mark over such a long period in the postwar era. In 1994 his earned-run average was just 1.56. So far this year, it's 1.57. Sandy Koufax never had such a good year. Nor did Nolan Ryan. In fact, only two pitchers in modern baseball have: Bob Gibson (1.12 in 1968) and Dwight Gooden...
...inevitable product of rock, in many ways: coolness comes from jazz; it was invented by Miles Davis and perfected by John Coltrane. White people can never really be cool. That's why they invented rock as distinct from blues, as distinct from jazz. Even the coolest white person, say Bob Dylan in 1964 or so, even that guy can't quite get it right...
WHOM YOU'LL SEE Bob Dole, Scott McNealy, Linda Wachner, Harvey Golub, Steve Case, Lou Gerstner, Richard Meier, Dr. Ian Wilmut and Colin Powell...
Remember this scene? San Diego, 1996. Bob Dole steps up to the podium for his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention. He looks lean and hungry, the faithful are cheering, so midway through the speech, Dole stares into the cameras and decides to uncork. "To the teachers' unions, I say, when I am President, I will disregard your political power," he bellows. "If education were a war, you would be losing it." Dole says he is not talking "to the teachers, but to the unions," but it doesn't matter. Democrats seize on Dole's screed and cast...
...part by a Democratic President's enthusiasm for reforms like charter schools and tougher teacher standards, union leaders have in the past year begun to at least pay lip service to ideas once considered heretical. The shift was detectable last February, when the new head of the N.E.A, Bob Chase, made an astounding admission before the National Press Club in Washington: "The fact is that in some instances we have used power...to protect the narrow interests of our members and not to advance the interests of our schools...