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...Brooklyn Robins and ended it 17 years later as the third-string catcher for the Boston Red Sox. He spent most of his playing days schmoozing and reading in dugouts and bullpens. His lifetime batting average was .243, he had only six home runs, and he was error-prone. If Berg ever stole a base, his latest biography, The Catcher Was a Spy (Pantheon; 453 pages; $24), does not mention...
Wednesday's jetliner crash on a South Korean tourist island -- the one in which all 160 people aboard miraculously escaped -- turns out to be pilot error. Police in Seoul say that as the plane neared the runway, the Canadian pilot accused the South Korean co-pilot of trying to manipulate the joystick, since the two disagreed on exactly where to land. Interested parties will have to wait for a police analysis of the cockpit's voice recorder to see if the squabbling may have caused the accident...
...Boston Globe/WBZ-TV public opinion poll of 403 Massachusetts voters was conducted last Tuesday and Wednesday and has a margin of error of plus or minus five percent...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 600 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Jul 13-14 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus 4% Not Sures omitted...
...crisp notes and trills of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Prelude in C Minor." Perhaps the tape is a bad copy, or the stereo is acting up again. Then the distracting noise grows louder, more insistent, until it can no longer be dismissed as a mechanical error. In fact, it is Gould singing along with his own performance as he always did on the stage and in the recording studio. Throughout his search for technical perfection, he hummed along audibly and slightly off-key. In many ways the odd combination of musical precision with his discordant vocal impromptus...