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This October, I found myself in an exactly opposite predicament. While the Series was in progress, I couldn't bring myself to care. Moreover, the entire season had been one long, progressive benumbment, as circumstances snatched interest from me, piece by progressive piece. The Sox were out of it before we began--what with Clemens' holdout, Gedman's erasure, and Boyd's injury. So I followed the Yanks, who stayed on top far longer than they deserved (on almost no pitching worth mentioning) but eventually, and inevitably, faded. Then I swallowed my pride of last October and followed the Mets...
That will bring no immediate help for Public Service, which is battling with dissident creditors over rescue plans. A group of bond owners (estimated holdings: $200 million) led by New York City Investor Martin Whitman is proposing to spin off Public Service's share in Seabrook into a separate company, thus leaving the utility less encumbered by debt. Losing Seabrook, however, is anathema to the utility, which still hopes to reap the hefty return that an operating nuclear plant can deliver. Public Service's Harrison proposes to restructure the debt, slash the utility's costs and raise electric rates...
Over the years TIME has made special efforts to bring you the world's best coverage of the other superpower, from the cover story on 1939 Man of the Year Joseph Stalin to last July's cover on the domestic and foreign policy reforms of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Our list of firsts is, as the Soviets would say, heroic. In 1970 Time Inc. published exclusive excerpts from the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, edited and translated by Strobe Talbott, who is now this magazine's Washington bureau chief. In 1979 TIME published a rare private interview with then Soviet Leader...
Junior Class President Duane Bartsch's remark followed his presentation of plans for a community-wide carnival. Someone asked Bartsch what the role of the fraternities would be, and he responded "to bring booths," the Columbia Spectator reported...
...Sometimes we have to tailor our programs to the enthusiasm we meet," Flanigan said. "So we're trying for the first time to have tours of variable lengths if it can bring in people and specialty skills...