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The sound and the fury

By Tim Keown
Page 2

Monday, November 21, 2005

They played the World Series again Saturday afternoon, right there at the bar in a cacophonous Red Robin restaurant in a suburban mall. Cal-Stanford was on the television. The World Series, as always, was better the second time around. My intention was to watch the first half of Cal-Stanford at the bar while waiting for the birthday party to finish watching "Harry Potter" in the 18-screen Hell-a-Plex next door. I brought the latest issue of the New Yorker magazine as a prop, something to do dur ...

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