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Somewhere
\n in America a young mother without a job waits in line six hours to get
\n a flu shot for her undernourished baby. Somewhere in Africa a nurse with
\n AIDS works taking care of others until the day she is too weak to get
\n our of bed, and then dies in the same hospital where she worked. Somewhere
\n in Iraq a scared 19-year-old kid from a small town in Ohio can’t sleep
\n because he knows that in a few short hours he will have to go out on
\n a patrol where very dangerous people will try their best to kill him.
\n These people are heroes.<\/p>\n
Somewhere in a university a young medical student is getting an idea which
\n will lead to a cure to AIDS, or Parkinson’s, or even cancer. Somewhere
\n a campaign is being put together which will for the first time harness
\n the
\n power and potential of the Internet for a higher cause, and transform the
\n political status quo in America forever. Somewhere in an anonymous room
\n a group of capable and credible people are plotting to detonate a thermonuclear
\n device in an American city. These people will make history.<\/p>\n
But the eyes of America are on none of these people. The eyes of America
\n are on the only heroes we are allowed to have. The Boston Red Sox did not
\n make history, in a wider sense, tonight, but what they did exorcised demons
\n haunting the hearts of thousands of fans and will serve to inspire millions
\n mired in devotion to hopeless causes forevermore. <\/p>\n
We can hear raw primal screams of triumph coming from the streets, manic
\n horn honking, and we live in a relatively restrained neighborhood. Things
\n in the student ghettos must be getting out of hand. When you let out a
\n wild animal that’s been caged up as long as the Red Sox resentment of the
\n Yankees, there’ll be hell to pay. Just ask Roy Horn.<\/p>\n
We warned our students to stay away from Kenmore Sq. after the game, win
\n or lose. A drunk fan after either a catastrophic loss or a cathartic win
\n can revert to deeply instinctual behavior, and a lot of them instinctually
\n don’t like foreigners. But we hope they are celebrating in their own quiet
\n ways. <\/p>\n
In a way, it doesn’t even matter now who wins the World Series. The Demons story from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Somewhere in America a young mother without a job waits in line six hours to get a flu shot for her undernourished baby. Somewhere in Africa a nurse with AIDS works taking care of others until the day she is … Continue reading
\n have been vanquished. Perhaps it would be better if we lost the Series
\n and kept alive the agonizing ecstasy, that eternal unrequited striving,
\n that is the essence of being a Red Sox fan...<\/em><\/p>\n