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LAST CALL Advice for Eulogists by Paul Beston Death is final, but it leaves you with the same old questions of form and content. What to say, what mood to strike? And how to deliver—a question...

The Boss Man Goeth (April 2011)

EMINENTQES The Boss Man Goeth George Steinbrenner's influence on baseball will long survive him. by Paul Beston For the first time in nearly four decades, baseball will welcome Opening Day...

Switching Off, Switching On (March 2011)

LAST CALL Switching Off, Switching On by Paul Beston EVERY YEAR AFTER THE SUPER BOWL, I pull the plug On sports. Football is over, baseball has yet to start, and I don't much care about other...

LAST CALL (June 2010)

LAST CALL Rent by Paul Beston IN THIS AGE OF TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS for most things, of redundant networks and backup files, there is still no contingency plan for the individual-man or...

Cosmetic Improvements (March 2010)

THE MALE SPECTATOR Cosmetic Improvements On women’s unchallenged right to make themselves up in their own good time. by Paul Beston For as long as I can remember, I’ve watched...

Suicide of the West (July 2009)

BOOKS IN REVIEW Suicide of the West The pacifist's preferred term for any war is "senseless," but more troubled observers would be hard-pressed to apply such a judgment across the board....

LAST CALL (May 2009)

YOU GUYS HAVE YOUR GUY THING," my sister often says, "I'm always out of it." She means that, in our male-heavy family—four boys and lonely her— the men tend to stick together. Not that there...

LAST CALL : The Usual Suspects (January 2009)

laST call The Usual Suspects by Paul Beston B y using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms,” George Orwell wrote in 1946, “you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning...

BETWEEN A ROCK AND SINATRA: Catching on to the Chairman of the Board's greatness after a lifetime of rock and roll (October 2008)

Catching on to the Between a Chairman of the Board’s greatness after a lifetime Rock and of rock and roll. by Paul beston Sinatra 22 THe aMeRIcan sPecTaToR ocTobeR 2008...

LAST CALL: O'Grady Lowers the Boom (June 2008)

L a s T c a L L O’Grady Lowers the Boom by Paul Beston of our newly purchased, 19th-century home for a few weeks before we called the service, which I’ll call O’Grady’s. “It can’t be...

IN MEMORIAM: Evel Descends (February 2008)

I n M e M o R I a M Evel Descends Requiem for a Daredevil. by Paul Beston That sunday, september 8, 1974, my parents were batting the names “Ford” and “Nixon” around our house like...

LAST CALL: Rail Quiet (April 2007)

7 8 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R A P R I L 2 0 0 7 OU CAN LEARN A LOT ABOUT PEOPLE ON TRAINS.Ispend a significant portion of my waking hours on...

EMINENTOES: The Butterfly's Sting (February 2006)

EMINENTOES PAUL BESTON The Butterfiyg Sting Muhammad Ali's greatness took a toll on him-and the rest of us. F YOU WATCH ESPN CLASSIC LONG ENOUGH, you'll come upon the footage. It's the...

Walk Mile in My Briefcase (December 2005)

BOOKS IN REVIEW- "Walk a Mile in My Briefcase" The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit at 50. KEEP LOOKING FOR TOM RATH On the Metro North. I've been riding the train to and from Grand Central Station...

Getting Dirty in Real Time: Kiefer madness on Fox (July 2005)

Getting Dirty in Real Time THE LAST WE SAW special agent Jack Bauer, he was walking into a California sunrise and headed for the Mexican border, a classic Western hero on the run from the corruptions of law and...

Men at War (March 2005)

BOOKS IN REVIEW Men at War Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright (Putnam, 354 pages, $24.95) Reviewed by Paul Beston AIllVAN...

LAST CALL: Combat Rock: The Birth of a Marine (February 2005)

LAST CALL Paul Beston Combat Rock: The Birth of a Marine START WITH A KID who always seems a bit behind, the fifth and youngest from a boisterous Irish family. He inhabits another world...

LAST CALL: Volunteers (June 2004)

LAST CALL PAUL BESTON Volunteers r HE WOMAN ON THE PHONE WAS FROM CNN. Pat Tillman had been killed in Afghanistan, she said, would I be willing to do a telephone interview? I was sitting in...

LAST CALL: Home It (March 2004)

LAST CALL PAUL BESTON Home It S GEORGE PLIMPTON ONCE WROTE, there are fewAmerican males of a certain age who do not hear the crack of bat and ball in the spring and transport themselves to a...

Betrayers and Betrayed (August 2003)

B y 1968 Joe Louis and Jesse Owens had long since settled into their roles as elder statesmen and revered icons of the sports world. They were also something like saints to black America. All that...

From the Orange Bowl to Washington (June 2003)

FROM THE ORANGE BOWL TO WASHINGTON liberals or conservatives." No doubt this is true. But everyone knows that Republicans and Democrats have fundamental differences on values that manifest...

Bedtime for Bolshevism (January 2003)

H e is a "firm and unbending politician for whom words and deeds are the same," stated a Soviet intelligence report on Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential campaign. Rare is the political...

Last Call (January 2003)

G rowing up in the 1970s, I was a Bigfoot fanatic. I took out every book in the library and read eyewitness accounts to my father, who of course scoffed from behind his newspaper. Finally I...

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