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One close Yankee observer, Sister Marguerite, says, "He cares about winning, but he also cares about people." Sister Marguerite is the longtime principal of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary School in the Ozone Park section of Queens, and last Thursday was a special day at the school--the kids could wear casual, i.e., Yankee, clothes instead of their usual uniforms. There was a local TV-news crew milling about, and Sister Marguerite called out, "Who wants to be a celebrity? Channel 9 is outside."
She is clearly getting a kick out of all the attention her school is receiving, which is a sort of payback for the present she gave her kid brother so long ago. "The Yankees are going all the way," she said. Glancing upward, she added, "Please God, we're going to sweep."
--With reporting by Georgia Harbison/New York