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None of these are capital crimes, exactly. Neither are Vincent's purported sins against the owners: that he refused to cede the role of mediator in future labor disputes, or that he disapproves of the right of TV superstations like those run by the Braves' and Cubs' ownerships to cut into other teams' viewership by airing their games in the same cities. Perhaps the dispute is a matter of style. It could be that Vincent's policies don't bug the owners so much as his firm and frosty belief that he has the power to make policy. He also...
Even as De Klerk impressed the world with his reforms, some in South Africa feared that the process of change might one day run up against the unwillingness of whites to cede power to blacks. Reform, says Cape Town novelist Andre Brink, went against De Klerk's grain but was forced upon him by circumstances -- black uprisings, international isolation, economic rot. "Now, at the first sign of things not going his way," says Brink, "his real colors are beginning to show -- his conservatism and belief in force as the only way of getting out of a dilemma...
FOUR HOURS -- 240 UGLY, frightening Hobbesian minutes -- was all it took for South Central Los Angeles to lapse into a violent state of anarchy. Four hours -- half a normal patrol shift -- was all the time needed for the Los Angeles Police Department to cede temporary control of the streets to looters and arsonists. Even as the faint traces of smoke still linger in the air, the L.A. riots have begun their transformation from grisly reality to political cliches. Beginning with White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater, Republicans blamed the rioting on everything from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society to liberal...
...those who drowned were men. Many had relinquished lifeboat seats to members of the gentler sex. Eight decades later, the dictates of Edwardian civility no longer hold much water. In a survey the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette learned that only 35% of the men on a Titanic II today would cede their lifeboat spots to children or women who weren't their wives. A mere 54% would give up seats for their mothers and 67% for their spouses...
...pick the dullest country in the world, most of us would pick Canada. That is a tribute to Canadians. For decades, Canada has heeded the Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" and done the opposite. Given a choice between the headlines and a decent life, Canadians cede the headlines to Haiti. Americans should start thinking about their dull neighbor though, because there is an even chance that this year or the next, Canada will join the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia on the list of former countries and become two neighbors...