I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

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Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

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I think a lot of parents are afraid to express certain emotions about children who are different, because they think that it's wrong to feel chained sometimes, to feel anger, to say to yourself, "I never wanted this." I think it's natural.

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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

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My wife says, "You're an idiot! Why do you Google your name and all you're doing is looking for trouble?" Because I'm thin-skinned. Because I don't like to be mischaracterized. I just don't. If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond. Now do I sometimes fall in the gutter myself and look silly doing it? Of course. Some battles I win, some battles I lose.

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But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

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There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

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Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

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I actually like football a great deal.

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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

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I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

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