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COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
In Boston last week, after the Red Sox knocked off the A's, chaos reigned briefly outside Fenway Park. The home team was away, in Oakland, but on Ipswich and Lansdowne and Boylston Streets beer bottles flew, cars were overturned, and breasts were bared. Several long-deprived Soxfans--"knuckleheads," according to Boston's mayor, Thomas Menino--broke into the empty park for a victory lap around the bases.
Not long before, another repressed knucklehead (or knuckle-dragger, at least) had broken out of his park, the Franklin Park Zoo, in nearby Dorchester. Eleven-year-old Little Joe, a three-hundred-pound gorilla, set off on a city stroll--his second in as many months--spiking a two-year-old girl along the way. His jaunt, in the spirit of the hopefulness that very occasionally comes over the cynical...
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