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Baseball owners say that player salaries are pushing the sport to the brink of financial ruin. By their tabulation, the 26 major-league teams lost $43 million in 1984 and could have a deficit of about $100 million in 1988. Nonsense, say the players, who accuse owners of using legal but oddball accounting methods to create paper losses. New owners, in particular, mark down profits for tax purposes by taking depreciation allowances that are supposed to account for the declining value of their players. In addition, the clubs often count long-term deferred compensation to players as a current expense...
...comparisons indeed, and McEwan’s work falls a long way short of both Woolf’s and Joyce’s. In Saturday, McEwan is attempting to paint a very big picture on a very small canvas: a portrait of post-Sept. 11 England on the brink of war with Iraq, conveyed through the daily interactions of one man with his work, his family, and his fellow Londoners. Perhaps the Iraq war is still too recent to be transformed into a backdrop to fiction, but more likely McEwan simply drops the ball. His musings...
...Oscar-winning actor (for My Left Foot), had been offered, and had turned down, a role in one of Rebecca Miller's movies. Their new film, The Ballad of Jack and Rose--an unusual love story between a hippie father and daughter who seem to teeter on the brink of incest as they try to create a Utopian life on an island in the Atlantic--is the very one he rejected...
Stone’s natural coaching instincts have directed Harvard back from the brink into peak form entering this weekend. When the team faced its most difficult stretch back in December, Stone knew just the right buttons to press to get it back into championship-caliber form in the 2005. The Crimson limped into winter vacation having dropped five of six against and stood at 7-6-1 overall with its post-season prospects dimming...
Talk of being on the cusp of a Harvard renaissance was no longer mere idle speculation. Welch believed—as Leaman had told him—that the Crimson stood on the brink of a return to a new golden...