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This past weekend, a friend of mine attended his 13-year-old son's baseball game. What he saw encapsulates a major reason many of us fear for the future of America and the West. His son's team was winning 24-7 as the game entered the last inning. When he looked up at the scoreboard, he noticed that the score read 0-0. Naturally, he inquired as to what happened -- was the scoreboard perhaps broken? -- and was told that the winning team's coach asked the scoreboard keeper to change the score. He and some of the parents were concerned that the boys...

Life lessons from losers 06/25/2002 By MICHAEL PRECKER / The Dallas Morning News Go ahead and laugh at the offbeat stories that lighten up our daily news: the thief who gets caught in the air vent, the helicopter patrol that stops for doughnuts, the man who treats his head lice with gasoline, then dries his hair in front of a wood stove. But can we learn from them? Pat Reeder thinks so. In a decade of making a living by chronicling humankind's folly, the Dallas comedy writer has become something of an expert on screw-ups big and small. That insight...