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Cub Fan, Bad Man?

By Steve Rhodes

Was the seemingly fun-loving Harry Caray actually a miserable human being?
Former Cubs broadcaster Milo Hamilton is taking some shots for saying just that in his new book, Making Airwaves.
“Being around Caray, day after day, was a real challenge,” Hamilton writes. “Harry’s handling of people was poor to say the least.”

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Posted on February 28, 2006

Algren and Us

“What is literature?” Jean-Paul Sartre once asked in a small volume bearing that title.
I submit that literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

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Posted on February 26, 2006

I, Store Detective

A possibly true story that will be told in many parts. Debuts soon.

Posted on February 25, 2006