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...that small period of time, that small window of time, is not the whole of this young man's life. He has worked very hard, he has achieved in some noteworthy ways, he's a decent person...
Results of the renovation are noticeable to those who have watched it go on--clean brick walls, sturdy new window frames, brighter rooms...
...series' bulging length and rhapsodic tone become wearying, even for a diehard fan. (It's difficult to imagine a nonfan sitting through anything close to the program's full 18 hours.) Baseball is rich in drama, irresistible as nostalgia and, yes, an instructive window into our national psychology. But it is, after all, a game. The lofty rhetoric of The Civil War seemed perfectly suited to the epic subject; in Baseball everything from Carl Hubbell's screwball to Mickey Mantle's bad knees is given the same sense of moment. Hard-hitting Mel Ott, we're told in portentous tones...
...Field and Study Center. He had played there often as a little boy. The Sandton Bird Club was having its monthly meeting there, but nobody saw Carter as he used silver gaffer tape to attach a garden hose to the exhaust pipe and run it to the passenger-side window. Wearing unwashed Lee jeans and an Esquire T shirt, he got in and switched on the engine. Then he put music on his Walkman and lay over on his side, using the knapsack as a pillow...
...ending 49 years of Soviet military presence in Germany. The last 1,800 troops -- down from 338,000 in 1990 -- will leave this month. Ordered by Major General Matvei Burlakov, commander of the Russian forces in Germany, "to take everything with them," the soldiers stripped their military installations of window frames, toilet fixtures, doorknobs and wiring. After all, Burlakov said, even a cement pole "can be traded in Russia for five pigs...