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Not terribly analytical about his politics, Will is a trenchant rationalist when it comes to hardball.
But now that I'm once again a father in spring training with my daughter Jessica, who is insistent on continuing to integrate the Shaker Baseball League (SBL--formerly the Shaker Boys League), a hardball little league that will include her 10-year-old-male, and some female, equals, I find that I must correct Power's mistake, caused by an obviously uniformed conjecture concerning our language as it is used in what was formerly an all-male game.
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Whereas Republicans would have to play hardball to beat Al Gore, Bradley is a "listless and uninspiring" candidate who could be vanquished quietly and nobly.