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Thousands of sports fans jammed the streets of Cooperstown, N.Y., a sleepy lakeside village (pop. 2,200) in the foothills of the Catskills, to watch as George Brett, Orlando Cepeda, Nolan Ryan and Robin Yount were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. But there was another all-star team playing in Cooperstown that weekend: eight miles up the road, Glimmerglass Opera was presenting the world premiere of Central Park, a trio of one-act operas with librettos by three top playwrights: A.R. Gurney (Love Letters), Terrence McNally (Master Class) and Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles). It was quite...
...that helped make this run possible, after all, by boosting sympathy and softening her image). All week long she tried her best to stick to a script that called on her to listen and learn, seeming to absorb knowledge and wisdom from local experts and average folks in Oneonta, Cooperstown, Utica, Rome and Syracuse. The self-effacing, studious pose is supposed to buy time and get people accustomed to a startling sight: the first First Lady ever to run for office, doing so while her husband still occupies his. But this phase of her campaign, which will involve...
...modest and thirsty for the wisdom of New Yorkers--taking notes, asking questions--she hopes to erase, as much as possible, the memory of the arrogant know-it-all of 1994 who designed a 1,364-page health-care reform plan in secret sessions. At a medical center in Cooperstown, Clinton voiced her impatience with incremental health-care reform, "the school of smaller steps" she and her husband have been forced to rely on ever since; the patient's bill of rights, though she supports it, is a mere "diversion" from the real problems: greedy drug companies, miserly managed-care...
...mayor's second annual Baseball Is for Kids outing to Shea Stadium, unbearable heat gave way to a bright, clear sunshiny day. While Hillary was visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Rudy was doing the real thing, shouting, "Let's play ball!" to a group of children who swamped the mayor for autographs on their baseballs and shirts. Maybe it was all those free tickets he was giving away, or maybe it was this kinder, gentler version of Rudy, tossing grounders to the kids and giving them a chance to bat, that won them over. Mets' co-owner...
Such smugness lacks imagination. The polls have Mrs. Clinton (not yet formally announced but house hunting in Westchester County and running hard) just about even with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. She heads into upstate New York this week on a five-city swing (Oneonta, Utica, Syracuse, Albany, Cooperstown). But forget early polls. Over time, all great stories are subject to transformation, surprise, sudden unexpected bloom...