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...admit that the excitement of having a "contending team" in the Year of the Scab might merit more than just an asterisk in the annals of baseball history, and that therefore some, if not most, of the excitement, of the season will disappear...
...should carry an asterisk after it--a tiny one. Michigan brought only 12 swimmers to the meet, slightly more than half its usual number. But Florida, no cream puff, fielded as many swimmers as Harvard, and the Crimson still...
...ardently to win will unfold without decisive evidence of Harding's innocence or guilt. The satisfying simplicity of sport, with its winners and losers and tangible numbers and seemingly objective results in a world otherwise given to opinion and guesswork, will in their case be marked by an asterisk of moral doubt. Perhaps that ambiguity reflects the real world as it mostly is. But that is all the more reason to hope for something else from sport...
...klieg light of publicity. Paul Reubens jettisoned his career as gooney kid Pee-wee Herman when he was caught masturbating in a Sarasota, Florida, theater. After Woody Allen jilted Mia Farrow for Farrow's adopted daughter, he found his reputation as a world-class filmmaker carrying the asterisk of a smirk...
EACH TIME AN INDEPENDENT PRESIdential prospect rises above asterisk standing, an alarm shrieks on Capitol Hill. Sure enough, Ross Perot's strong showing in polls has prompted dozens of legislators to ask the Congressional Research Service for a memorandum on the roles the House and Senate play if no ticket wins a majority of the 538 electoral votes. The dry legalisms make that process sound easy: the House would pick the President from the top three candidates, while the Senate would select the Vice President from the leading two. But the politics of the issue are more complex and potentially...