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...In "The Reform Action??Figure" [April 4], on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's war against the public employees' unions, columnist Joe Klein characterized them as "special interests" protecting their "unaffordable fringe benefits and antiquated work rules." But Klein should have noted that some states made the kind of pension-plan changes favored by the Governor--and then switched back to the original plans when it was realized that the changes left retirees without enough to live on. If this issue ever reaches voters, I'm hopeful that Californians will have seen enough Terminator movies to recognize the difference between...
...tried. He flicked the famous snakelike jab, laced together combinations and shot rights to Spinks' head. It was exquisitely conceived boxing from Ali, the aesthetician of ring art. But what the canny mind desired, the 36-year-old body?measuring itself now in the milliseconds between impulse and action???could not deliver. Age had slowed the timing: too many punches landed without sting, grazed past Spinks' youth-quick dodges or missed altogether...
Whatever the outcome of the franchise switch, Finley will probably stay in baseball just to see the game five years from now?orange balls streaking through the air, batters getting on base after three balls, pitchers nervously eyeing the clock. "Action!" shouts Finley. "Action???that's what the game needs! Let's get some goddam action in this sport...
...moved with far greater savagery to suppress the Hungarian uprising. And the involvement in Viet Nam was insignificant in 1962, when the Russians sanctioned erection of the Berlin Wall. In all three cases, the only kind of effective U.S. response would have involved the threat of large-scale military action???and the probability of World War III. Few would argue that the stakes were worth...
There were precedents for the President's action???and yet there had never been anything quite like it. Every Vice President who succeeded o the presidency in this century has renounced a second full term. But Theodore Roosevelt eventually sought another term on a third-party ticket, Calvin Coolidge courted a draft, and Harry Truman (see box preceding page), had served for 7 years before bowing...