He didn't have a baseball, so a man wearing a Mets caps tossed him a pristine ball, and the great closer happily showed off the grip that has made him the major league's saves leader.

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This will at least bring continuity, and avoid the sort of divisive power struggle that so often breaks out after the departure of a great man.

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In fact, the difference was so great that in order to get the same competence score as a man, a woman would need either to know someone on the committee, or to have published three more papers than the man in Nature or Science, the two journals with the highest impact or 20 more papers in good specialist journals.

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But Michelle Obama's great-great grandfather was a teenager when slavery was abolished, so as a free man, he started to leave a paper trail.

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"Oz the Great and Powerful, " like so many products of movie studios that have lost their way, is a Tin Man of epic proportions bright and shiny, with no heart.

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