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...implacable color line in major league baseball and changed American race relations forever. First from his mother, and later from a black Methodist minister who befriended him in his troubled adolescence, Jackie imbibed the belief that God had plans for him. Sure enough, an implausible design took shape. Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, plucked Robinson out of the obscurity of the Negro league Kansas City Monarchs in 1945 and asked him if he could accept the terms of making history, with all the abuse that would ensue. "I'm looking," Rickey famously said, "for a ball player...
WASHINGTON: Fittingly, the hearings began with a rerun. Janet Reno was shown a 1993 recording of herself defending the independent counsel law because "there is an inherent conflict whenever senior executive branch officials are to be investigated by the Department of Justice...
...store had to vacate the old building due to redevelopment, according to Chris White, store manager of the Harvard branch, whose office will be housed in the former bank vault...
...always been of the position that the student newspaper was on the wrong side of [the open records] issue, that they should be accountable like any other branch [of the university]," Hiestand said. "We don't want exemptions that would allow universities not to turn over public information...
...noted the distinctions between patrons of the Harvard Herrell's and the customers at her branch...