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...Washington he left behind more than 250 signed baseballs he'd collected since he was a kid. But he did pack his love of the game. And last Wednesday, the new president hosted a small group of some of America's great players, managers and their wives. Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken and Braves pitcher Tom Glavine dined on veal chop and salad in the old family dining room along with Yankees manager Joe Torre, Cubs skipper Don Baylor and Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A's. It's the kind of group that can be put together when...
...cool crowd, offering up his razors with a truly pathetic look on his face. And if you're an Army guy who can't fish, can't bond with others, and lets an old lady with plastic teeth outsmart you in the Tribal Council (although technically, Maralyn voted for "Cal," so maybe that doesn't count), you're better off back at the base saluting toilets with a toothbrush...
...Cal wasn't the only disappointment of Week Two of "Survivor: Back to the Outback." The contestants are really starting to sound like they'd watched all the tapes of "Survivor 1" before they got on the plane, and the cattiness we're supposed to eat up like pasty rice really sounds forced. Frankly, gross-out Wheel of Gastronomical Misfortune or not, at about the halfway point the director's-cut 40-minute "Friends" with George Costanza was awfully appetizing, clicker-wise...
...after five years of deregulation, five months of trouble and five weeks of genuine "crisis," the power system of the nation's most populous state (and the world's sixth largest economy) finally had to be given a breather by the folks at Cal-ISO because power reserves were dangerously...
...demand skyrocketed, all those companies that were supposed to come to the Golden State to build new power plants and join the marketplace didn't come fast enough. Existing power suppliers had rising natural gas prices to worry about, and soon found ways to milk the market (and Cal-ISO) for as much as the traffic would bear...