CONVENTIONAL WISDOM.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 20-SEP-04

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This week, the pennant race enters the homestretch, as the underdog Boston Red Sox, with their long hair and their mud-encrusted helmets, come to New York to try to catch the incumbent (and clean-shaven) Yankees. By now, thanks to the Democratic and Republican Conventions in Boston and New York and to the current Major League standings, the political analogies are entrenched, if not altogether precise: the Red Sox are Democrats, and the Yankees the G.O.P. Strictly from a management perspective, the Red Sox are progressives, with a front office resembling an activist judiciary, jettisoning tradition at the recommendation of intellectual elites with little practical hardball...

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