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While the Crimson contingent was no match compared to the UNC fans, who lead the country for the third consecutive year in home attendance, University of North Carolina Head Coach Anson Dorrance had this...
...also a bit much. In its grandiloquent excess, Baseball reflects the sport's increasingly hallowed status in American life. Somewhere along the road from Cap Anson to Rickey Henderson, baseball ceased being merely a game; it became a poem. Grubby, declasse sports like football and basketball might draw more crowds and more national TV coverage, but for truly discriminating fans -- the ones with Ivy League degrees who never sit in the bleachers -- baseball became the sport supreme. It's the one with the perfect, immutable dimensions and no clock to artificially limit the action; the one that values finesse...
...Anson E.W. Kaye, who is handling college recruiting for the Barrette Campaign, says he does not yet know the number of positions available or salary amounts...
...volley of stories detailing the palace's behind-the-scenes fury ended up backfiring. The public sympathized with the 32-year-old mother of two who had strayed into the sights of such heavy artillery. The next day Charles Anson, the Queen's press secretary and the source of some of the vitriol, issued an extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented, public apology to the monarch and Fergie. Anson was not the only insider to spill venom, but he accepted "full responsibility" for what some people had begun to call the "Mean Queen Machine." The next step in damage control was to negotiate...
...make money by buying the stock of takeover targets and selling it at a higher price when the deals go through. The high anxiety about the junk-bond market sent the stocks of takeover targets plunging across the board. "The arbs got their heads handed to them," said Anson Beard, the chief trader for Morgan Stanley. "Very few anticipated that the UAL buyout could fail." Small investors suffered less because they have been less active in the market since the 1987 crash...