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...since 1985 and agreed to help authorities assess the damage. In the case of Awad, damaging publicity about his mishandling threatens to impede overseas operations by giving the U.S. a reputation for running a bait-and-switch program. "We promise ((informants)) the moon in the beginning," says FBI special agent Frank Scafidi. "But when they come through for us, there's not much there. If the government doesn't hold up its end of the bargain, people are not going to come forward...
Smith resents the fact that baseball executives thought he was over the hill, but he says he's used to it. "It wasn't just last year; it's been the last five or six years," he says. "Teams told my agent ((Jim Bronner)) I was throwing only 83, 84 miles an hour last year. Once those reports come out, you get a reputation. It was like 46 saves didn't matter...
...love to have him." Rettenmund meant that Cedeno was raw and erratic but had remarkable tools: a live bat, a great arm, terrific range. Cedeno, now 24, has matured, and it shows. Through Sunday he was hitting .329 with five homers. . . . One of the best free-agent signings of the off-season was White Sox DH Julio Franco, who has been hitting cleanup. He had 24 RBIs through Sunday and had made it tough for pitchers to work around No. 3 hitter Frank Thomas. . . . Sadly but mercifully, it appears that the career of pitcher Dave Righetti, 35, is over...
...simple, perhaps Machiavellian fact is that if the U.S. were consistently to apply its policy of economically penalizing any country with human rights violations, it would have no trading partners left. No state is morally blameless, because every state, by definition, is a political entity before it is an agent of morality...
...concerned is the agency that earlier this year it opened a high-tech- crime office with a dozen agents in San Jose, California, to clamp down on chip thefts. Among other things, the agents have found a rising threat of heist-related violence. "We're seeing more weapons being used," says special agent Rick Smith. In one stickup a robber put his gun to a chip retailer's head and pulled the trigger, but the weapon failed to fire. "No one's been killed yet," Smith says, "but it's going to happen...