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...after the finish of a great World Series--infuriated the players' union, which viewed it as a hardball bargaining tactic. The league is desperate for some kind of salary cap, like that of the NFL and the NBA, because the owners are unable to contain themselves. Witness Texas Rangers boss Tom Hicks' signing Alex Rodriguez to a 10-year contract worth $252 million. Union president Donald Fehr issued a terse denunciation and then filed a grievance. Said former commissioner Fay Vincent: "Once again, the owners of baseball have made a terrible mistake...
...That's why the American targeting of Atef also served to deliver a pointed message to his boss. As American commandos did in northern Afghanistan, U.S. special ops in the south provided Pashtun tribes with advice, ammunition and weapons. But the immediate goal was to divine bin Laden's location with enough precision for the U.S. to deploy its forces--either technological or human, in the air or down into a cave--to deliver the final blow. All week American troops manned checkpoints on the roads running through former Taliban country, seeking clues to bin Laden's coordinates. Special...
...woman on the beach that captures their collective attention is Cheryl, played by Ajarae D. Johnson ’02, a twenty-something bank teller who has just been proposed to by her straightedge boss, a man who files his shirts by pattern and color. She has embarked on a girl’s weekend with her friend Rhonda (Abigail L. Fee ’05), who does not catch the boys’ interest as prominently...
Compounding such strains are pressures that discourage couples from expressing how they feel. "They're afraid to say the parent is the source of stress in a marriage," says Pauline Boss, a family psychologist at the University of Minnesota, "because their culture has taught them it's their duty to take care of family." Doris Roberts agrees: "You feel selfish saying 'I'd like to be out playing golf today.' You think, Good children do this...
...Like his boss-to-be, Lawrence H. Summers, Hyman, currently the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), won't be a familiar face in Harvard Yard when he arrives. But interfaculty initiatives, the hallmark of the provost's office under Hyman's predecessors, were designed to prompt academic collaboration between the University's disparate parts, and MBB—arguably the crown jewel of those programs—has his fingerprints all over...