The Red Sox hired Valentine as manager to replace Terry Francona, a two-time World Series winner brushed out the door like a stray cat.

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You had merely to lead them to the plate-glass porch door and point out a squirrel or a cat running on the railing, or the automatic pool vacuum flipping its tail in the water as it carried on, side to side, end to end.

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Even then, to his credit, Ang Lee is never tempted to domesticate this cat, except briefly, when both boy and beast are starving and at death's door.

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