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...same time, Democratic incumbents have yet to take their turn at bat; most will improve their standing -- and drive up the negatives of their opponents -- once they get out of Washington to campaign at the end of this week. Those with seniority can remind constituents of the pork-barrel spending, the tax loopholes and other goodies they have delivered for big employers in the district. Democratic strategists predict that the threat of a Republican takeover of Congress -- and of cuts in programs popular not only with the poor but also with the middle classes -- will help mobilize their force...
...saga began in August 1993, when Adrian Guthrie and Simon Roberts, both 17, and raised in Klawock, ordered a pizza in Everett, Washington. When Domino's Pizza deliveryman Timothy Whittlesey showed up, Guthrie distracted him and Roberts hit him repeatedly with a baseball bat, leaving him, his assailant now admits, "kinda in convulsions." A bystander saw the teens removing Whittlesey's beeper, $40 and the pizza. The two Tlingits pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery. Superior Court Judge James Allendoerfer was expected to assign prison terms of up to 5 1/2 years...
...Whittlesey, whom James had promised restitution for the partial deafness he has suffered, looked on from the audience, both boys apologized for their crime. But then, responding to leading questions by their elders, they ticked off a list of extenuating circumstances: they had been drunk; Roberts always carried a bat with him for fear of gangs; he had "heard a report that one of the Domino's Pizza deliverymen had a gun" and might be dangerous. The day's session ended with a statement by one of the elders that "it's a known fact that under the influence...
...mysterious problem often surfaces in grade school: for no apparent reason, children have trouble reading. Though they may be intelligent and highly motivated, they still find it hard to distinguish between simple words like bat and pat. Sometimes the malady goes undiagnosed for years; but if the child is fortunate, a teacher or doctor will recognize the signs of a subtle disability called dyslexia, which may affect 10 million Americans...
...intimate terms. It is baseball virtually free of mortifying drug scandals -- no player making $1,000 a month can afford a cocaine habit for long. It is baseball on a human scale. When Peoria Chiefs designated hitter Alex Cabrera was fined $50 this month for illegally grooving his bat, he complained that it was "too expensive." A carpenter or a schoolteacher can relate to that. Fifty bucks is a lot of money. By comparison, the average millionaire in the major leagues seems to be laboring, or not laboring, in the far reaches of fantasyland...