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11. Then there are those who pooh-pooh all this: Nostradamus, they say, was a charlatan, a guy who predicted things only once they'd happened, because what he wrote was so nebulous, no one could make sense of it until after the event, when all became clear.

He remains a guy driving himself crazy by trying to create a happy ending but getting outsmarted by uncontrollable chains of events.

Heck, charming Billy didn't even bother to ask the members of Congress what they thought before bombing Iraq in 1998. The other presidential hopeful in this triad of toadies, Howard Dean, has about as much experience with world affairs as my new Saratoga recliner, and it's anyone's guess as to what thoughts may be scampering around in that guy's mind these days.

Not just being forced to sit in the middle seat, or getting stuck next to the oversized and extravagantly odorous guy.

Some guys got gadgets or hardware for Christmas, others software or computer games.

30. "Jerry Porter came up to me and said, `Hey, dumb guy,' " Shaw said in a telephone interview last week from Dallas.

"Everybody started walking around the locker room saying, `Hey, dumb guy,' to each other," Shaw said.

"You had so many veterans on that team that if they decided to take a vacation and run a guy out of town, it can happen and it's not fair to the guy," he said, referring to Callahan.

You can do that with younger guys, but with older guys, you can't.

I never had any quarrels with him, but that was the biggest thing: he didn't treat the guys like men. Johnson said: "Some guys said: `Oh, this white dude jumped on this black dude and nothing happened.

If that had been a black dude jumping on a white dude, there would have been consequences.' "Other guys said, `If it was Jerry Rice who punched Marcus in the eye, he would have had the same slap on the wrist that Romanowski got.' " Some incidents had less serious overtones.

"I would be the last guy to walk into the defensive-backs meeting," Shaw said, "and all of the players would stand up and say, `All rise, Judge Terrance Shaw presiding.' "I then said somebody's jersey number.

"We ran through the wall for that guy.

But once this season started, guys felt like they were jilted without explanation. "It's something that has been brewing, but its always tough to lose a teammate, especially a guy as skilled as Jags was," Grier said.

"All I could think about was, 'Where's my son?' and, 'God, don't let this guy shoot me in front of him,'" the woman wrote in a victim impact statement.

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