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...damning audio tapes were made by Mitchell Burns, who in 1965 was 35. Now 74, he is a slim, silver-haired man with glasses and a crusty sense of humor. In 1964 he let the FBI plant a tape recorder in his 1956 Chevrolet after an agent showed him a picture of the dead girls. "It was the most horrible thing I ever seen," he said, voice quivering. He later referred to Blanton as "a punk...
...first cracks in the system appeared in 1995, when Nomo, then 26 and one of Japan's very best pitchers, used a loophole in the archaic Japanese baseball-convention rules that enabled him to circumvent free-agent regulations. A poster boy for a new generation of restless youth fed up with the traditional constraints of group loyalty, Nomo was at first heavily criticized by older fans. Japan's hyperactive media labeled him a "troublemaker" and even a "traitor." But when he started humbling Americans with his wicked forkball, suddenly the country that had spent half a century trying to catch...
...Blue Wave (owned by Orix Corp., a major leasing company), they came up with a plan designed to close the Nomo loophole and enable management to profit from the growing rash of defections. The so-called posting system gives a player still a year or two shy of free-agent eligibility the opportunity to sign up with a major league team - if that team agrees to pay his Japanese club a negotiating fee. Last year the 27-year-old Ichiro became the first Japanese star to use posting. From the deal, his team, the Blue Wave, earned a crisp...
...likelihood is that Japan will just muddle through, much in the same way the Japanese government has muddled through the past 10 recession-filled, confidence-depleting years. Says playwright Yamazaki, whose devotion to the Giants began to wane after Watanabe forced the free-agent system on the other owners in 1993: "Let Japanese players go to the States. That is good for Japanese baseball because someday they will come back and raise the level of the sport. Japanese baseball is like Japanese politics. One is dominated by the Giants, the other by the ldp. It will take time to liberate...
...second reason for opposing a living wage is that it fundamentally misinterprets the proper role of universities, which is to promote learning and increase knowledge. Harvard does not exist to be an agent for social change, and it never has. While it is appropriate for students to question University policies that are obviously unjust, Harvard’s present wage structure does not fall into that category. Assuming that Harvard meets the requirements of legality and basic fairness, the administration’s highest priority should be to advance the academic ends for which Harvard was created...