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...which began in 1935. The 12 teams of the Central and Pacific leagues draw more than 22 million fans a year. But because of a compliant union, which refuses to strike (that would disrupt social harmony, or wa), and restrictions that keep neutral salary arbiters and sports agents at arm's length, players are underpaid and underrepresented. They are expected to endure brutal workouts, which include dawn-to-dusk training camps held in the freezing cold, and to obey petty rules that are more befitting a military academy. During this off-season, after several traffic violations, 20-year-old pitching...
...inning. Four outs away from splitting the series at one apiece and stealing a victory on the road, Nyweide showed his first signs of fatigue. Mike Levy singled to left field followed by a Mileusnic single to right. Coach Walsh, who had Birtwell warming up in case Nyweide's arm became too tired, decided to stick with the junior pitcher for at least one more batter. Walsh called for a change-up on the first pitch to Nickerson, who erased Harvard's comfortable three-run lead with one swing...
Horowitz was one of seven speakers in a two-day-long conference sponsored by the non-Harvard affiliated group Accuracy in Academia, an organization formed to, according to its brochure "arm students with the truth that schools fail to provide...
...sources in both organizations tell TIME, Hizballah's backers in the Iranian government have called them together to patch up their dispute and focus them on the jihad against the Jewish state. The Iranians, who have kept Hamas at arm's length until now, hope that by bringing the two together again, they can pool their operations and exert even more deadly pressure on Israel. If the Iranians get their way, it will be a dark day both for Israelis--who will face increasingly professional terrorist attacks--and for Palestinians already suffering under a heavy-handed Israeli backlash. Competition between...
...will be a handshake to strike fear in the hearts of Israelis. The roving power broker of Hamas, 52, and the fiery 41-year-old cleric who leads Hizballah will be signaling a truce in what has been a violent if largely unheralded struggle to be the leading terror arm of the Palestinian uprising. The two were once allies. But earlier this year, Hizballah decided it wanted to go its own way. Suddenly two of the most efficient and dangerous terror groups in the world were in competition with each other. It was as if two units of the same...