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June 27, 2002
Rahual Mahajan
Arafat
Says US Needs New Leadership; Calls for Fair Elections
June 26, 2002
Robert Fisk
Sharon as
Bush Speechwriter
Mokhiber / Weissman
Brokerman
June 25, 2002
Dave Marsh
The RIAA,
Library of Congress and the Web Pirates
Uri Avnery
Reform
Now!
Bahour / Dahan
Bush:
Off with Arafat's Head
Walt Brasch
Bush:
the Compassionate Exerciser
June 24, 2002
Bernard Weiner
Talkin'
About the F-Word
David Bates
Portland
Gets Dicked:
Cheney Does Oregon
Jo Freeman
Will
the War on Terror Follow the Path of the Cold War?
Tom Gorman
The Only
Thing "Generous" is the Propaganda
Bezhad Yaghmaian
Caught
Between Borders
in a Borderless World
Ben Sonnenberg
Ted
Hughes' Spell
June 22/23, 2002
Douglas Valentine
Sex,
Drugs & the CIA
June 21, 2002
Norman Madarasz
Brazil
Over England:
The Gaucho's Wild Ride
John Borowski
Stossel
and Disney's Crimes Against Nature
Chris Floyd
Southern
Cross: The US Takes Aim at Brazil
David Martin
Of Lies
and Oil: an interview with Rahul Mahajan
James T. Phillips
Serbian
Reservations:
Kosovo 2002
June 20, 2002
Chris Kromm
The South
at War: a Tour of the US Military/Industrial Complex
Jacob Levich
The War
on Terror is
Not a Suicide Pact
Mark Weisbrot
What
are They Doing to Argentina?
Jeffrey St. Clair
and Alexander Cockburn
Fire
Walk With Me:
Terry Lynn Barton and the Flames of Colorado
June 19, 2002
Gary Leupp
Red Targets in Terror War
Lenni Brenner
The Road
Forward for the
Palestinian Movement
Bernard Weiner
Inside
Cheney's Diary:
Cakewalking Through Minefields
Alexander Cockburn
The
Incredible Shrinking President
June 18, 2002
David Vest
Raise the
White Flag in Terror War?
Ben White
Is It Possible
to "Understand" the Rise in "Anti-Semitism"?
Edward Said
Palestinian
Elections Now
June 17, 2002
Jack McCarthy
Watergate
and All That
Philip Farruggio
A Maximum
Wage Law
Ron Sullivan
Law
and Orders:
The Assault on Trial by Jury
Rev. Charles Booker-Hirsch
Taking
on the School
of the Americas
Joan Smith
G.W. Bush:
The Man is Stupid
Dave Marsh
Corporate
Buy Outs and the Decline of Teen Jive
Robert Jensen
Rhetoric
Distorts Realities
June 15 / 16, 2002
Tanweer Akram
A Review
of Noam Chomsky's 9-11
Daniel Wolff
The Day
They Shot a Wolf in the Ghetto and What It Meant
Ralph Nader
A Corporate
Crime State
David Vest
Have You
Been Serviced?
Karl Kraus
A Minor
Detail
Alexander Cockburn
The
Terrorism of Everyday Life
June 14, 2002
Mark Weisbrot
US Trade
Policy:
"Do as We Say, Not as We Did"
Starhawk
The Boy Who Kissed the Soldier
David Krieger
Farewell
to the ABM Treaty
Tom Turnipseed
The Fear Factor to Promote
War and Trample Truth
Steve Perry
How the
Bush Adminstration Buried Coleen Rowley
June 13, 2002
Linda Belanger
Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict:
The Story Behind the Headlines
Amira Hass
Indefinite
Siege
Mokhiber / Weissman
Time to Put Lives Over Patents
Robert Fisk
Bush's Weird
War
Stanton / Madsen
Democracy
in Crisis:
What is to be Done?
Roldan Tomasz Suárez
Venezuela:
Five Facts
About the Coup
June 12, 2002
Fran Shor
Dirty Bombs, Blowback
and Imperial Projections
Dave Marsh
Shelley
Stewart, Radio and the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement
Chris Floyd
Murder, Inc.
June 11, 2002
Omar Barghouti
On Dance, Identity and War
Robert Fisk
The Bush
Afghan Gang:
Murderers, Gangsters, Stooges
Minerva Wright
The Donkeys of the Holy Land
David Krieger
Stopping
a Nuclear War
in South Asia
June 10, 2002
Jeffrey St. Clair
Executioner's Last Songs
June 8/9, 2002
Gavin Keeney
Mademoiselle
M.
Or Getting Screwed in Paris
Susan Davis
Sleepless
in the Suburbs
Curing Insomnia: a new use for The Nation?
George Sunderland
"Send
in the Weekly
Standard": The Screaming Pundits Assault Corps
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June 27,
2002
Darryl Kile's Great
Day
by David Vest
Last Saturday, June 22, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher
Darryl Kile was found dead at his hotel room, an apparent victim
of undetected hardening of the arteries. He was 33. To call his
death "unexpected" falls far short of the sense of
shock felt through the world of baseball.
Unexpected is a word better employed
for what he did on September 8, 1993, pitching in the Dome for
the Houston Astros, when he no-hit the New York Mets. I was there,
sitting in the gray Loge boxes directly behind home plate. I
still have the ticket stub.
I keep it with the stubs from the other
two no-hitters I've attended. The first was by Nolan Ryan against
the Dodgers in 1981, on national television. The other one was
Mike Scott's division-clinching masterpiece against the Giants
in 1986. My son Stefan was with me for that one.
All three of my no-hitters were in September,
when the games really count, but Kile's had nothing of the drama
of the others. It was a sparsely-attended weekday afternoon game
with nothing much on the line, a business person's special on
getaway day.
No one could have imagined Kile would
throw a no-hitter that afternoon. Personally I would have thought
it was more likely that he would walk the bases loaded, hit a
couple of batters, and give up a home run before getting anybody
out. Let's say he had a reputation for control problems at that
stage of his career. His curve was unhittable, but why bother
to swing at it if he couldn't get it over?
I got a hot dog and a soda and was back
to my seat in time for the anthem, an increasingly ugly moment
at the ball park as guest singers reluctant to relinquish the
microphone stretch it out longer and longer.
As soon as the first hitter stepped in,
it was clear that Kile had his good stuff. The curve was breaking
sharply, taking wicked nips at the corner, freezing hitters in
their tracks. The ump could have called the game from my seat.
A good-hitting Mets team looked helpless. They were.
After the last out I got to my car in
time to hear Larry Dierker interview Kile. It was a bravura performance
by Dierker. Kile was speechless, barely able to mumble a word
or two in answer to any question. Fortunately, Dierker had thrown
a no-hitter himself and knew exactly what Kile was feeling.
As of this writing, Kile's was the last
no-hitter thrown by an Astro. My own good fortune in having wandered
by sheer accident into three of them both delights and humbles
me. Some people, far better fans than I, watch baseball for decades
and don't get to see a no-hitter.
In 1997 Kile went 19-7 for the Astros,
with a 2.57 ERA. Over the next two seasons, after signing for
big bucks with the Colorado Rockies, he was 21-30, with an ERA
over 6.00. He was a 20-game winner for the Cards in 2000.
Now, suddenly, he's gone, but once, for
a couple of hours on a September afternoon, he was an immortal.
David Vest writes the Rebel Angel column for CounterPunch.
He is a poet and piano-player for the Pacific Northwest's hottest
blues band, The Cannonballs.
He can be reached at: davidvest@springmail.com
Visit his website at http://www.rebelangel.com
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