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...inside pitch on the shoulder and ruining double play attempts with his hard slides into second base, but also for instilling a team spirit and sense of purpose in the dugout. Baylor's famed Kangaroo Court brought a looseness and camaraderie to the Red Sox that had been absent for a long time. Baylor, not McNamara, was the leader in the dugout, and there was never any animosity among various groups of players when he was here. It's highly unlikely that Baylor would tolerate the rampant dissension and backbiting that have plagued...
...distinction between larceny and robbery. A "perp" snatches a chain from a woman's neck, he hypothesizes. "Is it larceny or robbery?" Answer: "If he grabs the chain and breaks it without using force against her, you don't charge him with robbery unless you want to lose. Absent force, it's larceny...
...left Tyson in his will. "More than me or Patterson," says D'Amato's other old champion, the light-heavyweight Jose Torres, "Tyson is a clone of Cus's dream. Cus changed both of us, but he made Mike from scratch." In Brooklyn, Tyson had drawn the absent father and saintly mother, the standard neighborhood issue. "You fought to keep what you took," he says, "not what you bought." His literary pedigree is by Charles Dickens out of Budd Schulberg. When Tyson wasn't mugging and robbing, he actually raised pigeons, like Terry Malloy. A tough amateur boxer named Bobby...
...better educated, healthier and more fully represented in the professions and on local government councils than their mothers' generation was, they remain second- class citizens. At work -- women hold 51% of the jobs in the Soviet Union -- they find themselves confined to low-paying positions and are noticeably absent from management posts. In the Communist Party, they make up 29% of the membership, but no woman sits in the ruling 13-member Politburo and less than a dozen in the 307-member Central Committee. Almost 60 years ago, Lenin described the woman's lot as "barbarously unproductive, petty, nerve-racking...
Three weeks after Josefa Edralin Marcos died at age 95, her body is still under glass in a bronze coffin at a funeral home in a well-to-do Manila suburb. White lilies sent by her absent son from exile in Hawaii are fading. Blocking her burial is a contest of wills between President Corazon Aquino and supporters of the deposed Ferdinand Marcos...