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...title about 15 years ago. The Red Sox have not won a World Series since 1918 because of absolutely horrific management. The Sox routinely built their teams with expensive slow-footed power hitters who couldn’t play the field worth a lick. Instead of investing in pitching, speed, or defense, the Sox would routinely sit around and wait for the three-run homer while their pitchers gave up lots of runs. In addition, the Sox were the last team to integrate in major league baseball—a black player never played for the Red Sox until Pumpsie...
While the Bears (1-1) could not match the Crimson’s speed in the day’s primary heat, their lack of comparable depth was more than evident in the undercard, with two Harvard eights besting Brown’s second boat...
...guys, though to exhaust the supply, it would have to be performed over several agonizing days, sort of a James Taylor Ring Cycle. There are worse things than a glut of smart songwriters, but you can't help thinking that if a few of them started churning out some speed-metal tunes, they might be doing themselves--and record stores--a big favor...
...couldn’t bring myself to see any of this crap crop last summer—after wasting ten bucks on The Matrix Reloaded, I confined my summer movie-watching to what I could get from Netflix and the local library; I got up to speed on Cronenberg and Polanski and saw a bunch of other classics that I hadn’t caught yet. The only ticket I bought for the rest of the summer was to see 28 Days Later (which I enjoyed a lot—I’m a sucker for evocative apocalypse movies...
Most of us are just small-scale cheaters: We speed on the highway; we make minor omissions on our tax forms; we sneak in through the back door at Adams. We’ve become accustomed to these minor infractions. But the Big Rules almost everyone obeys. Let’s face it—even murderers stop at red lights. So it’s really a shock to the system when the basic fairness of the world is exposed for what it is—frankly, a big sham. Thou shalt not swindle thy shareholders out of their...