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Mattingly? The closest he came was last year's loss in the wild card series against Seattle, which the Yankees really reached in spite...
...spite of the fact that we all claim to go to school in Boston, very few of us head across the Charles River and actually go to the city. And no, a trip to the airport to escape this God-forsaken area of the country in the middle of winter doesn't count...
Like Dan Morales, Moore is one of the Davids wielding the slingshots against the tobacco Goliath. In 1994 he filed the first lawsuit by a state seeking to recoup the cost of health care for smoking-related illness. In spite of his professed wonderment that "little ole Mississippi" has taken the lead, it's fully in character for this aggressive and self-promoting prosecutor who got his start battling Gulf Coast corruption, and personally packed a gun to go on a drug raid. Moore, probably the most popular elected official in his state right now, is considering...
...accepted at 15 by the Williamstown (Massachusetts) Theater Festival, to which he has returned virtually every summer since, in spite of his film career. (He has a home in Williamstown as well as in Bedford Hills, New York, both perched on hills with picture-book views.) After graduating from Cornell in 1974, he studied acting at Juilliard with John Houseman. He made his first Broadway appearance with Katharine Hepburn in A Matter of Gravity, an odd play in which he received quite good notices. In 1978 came the movie Superman; he initially thought the role so silly, so beneath theater...
...walk, eat, dress himself with clip-on ties and laceless shoes. How he fought his way from county attorney to Senate leader, driving for miles, stopping in front of every swaying porch lamp to beg, "Vote for Dole. Dole, like the pineapple juice." How he has triumphed in spite of his epithets: hatchet man, Nixon's water boy, tax collector for the welfare state, the Senator from Archer Daniels Midland, the Old Man. And, finally, how he believes he will wrench the presidency away from an opponent whose relative youth and ease and liquid empathy conspire to make Dole look...