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Spring training starts tomorrow with replacement players pretending to be the real baseball teams, while the owners and players union engage in fantasies of their own. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee today, acting baseball commissioner Bud Selig admitted for the first time that the strike has hurt the teams financially. Though ticket sales and television and radio broadcasting rights for 1995 have plunged, Selig said the owners have no choice but to maintain their tough stance in negotiations. Many teams, he said, could not survive another season under the old contract. It remains to be seen how well they...
...contest. Peru's armed forces (115,000 soldiers) and population (22 million) are twice the size of its rival's. ``Conflicts like this start as skirmishes, but they always hold within them the potential to escalate,'' says a senior Administration official. ``It's important to nip them in the bud.'' And in this case, to try to settle the border dispute once...
When using a voice of chronological distance Edmunds' words are impotent. In a short poem, appropriately titled, "Weathering," the persona speaks with regret to his lover, "Remember last August, my desire/dying down like roses from toothed leaf to bud." Yet later in the poem, the speaker insists to his lover, "I want you." At this point the reader may be tempted to respond, "I don't think so." But perhaps a fistfull of red-dirt and a few dead roses would more adequately convey her regrets in the poet's own language...
With the mention of this, a double for the former Larry 'Bud' Melman appeared from behind the section dedicated to the culinary arts. He enquired as to my year in school. I replied that I was to be a first-year in Cambridge this fall...
Often enough Powell did need help with that; still, the music could dazzle. The way McLean recalls it in the notes that accompany the elegantly packaged Verve set, Charlie Parker "got used to being king of the hill. But when he stepped on the bandstand with Bud, he wasn't king of the hill anymore, because Bud was going to give him back as much as he got." And that, of course, was near as good as it ever gets...