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Minaya isn't just a checkbook GM. He has clearly added value, following what he calls his "Montreal model": look for cheap players no one else will touch. Based on last year's stats, second baseman Jos Valentin and outfielder Endy Chavez should be in the bush leagues. But Minaya trusted his scouts, and each player has delivered. Valentin hit two homers in the division-clinching win over Florida...
...some, walking away is intended as a more permanent escape. George Donahue, 70, disappeared from his tidy retirement apartment at Chicago's Lawrence House a year ago, leaving behind his checkbook and credit cards but no note for his family. Police assume that he is alive and getting his Social Security checks at a new address. Under the Federal Privacy Act, Social Security officials are not allowed to divulge information on AWOL oldsters...
...plan is an ill-conceived attempt to apply a simple, cheap, and ultimately harmful, medication to cure an epidemic. If Florida, or any state for that matter, is serious about improving public education, it should stop playing with fire by rejecting high school majors and instead get out its checkbook...
...Supreme Prosecutors' Office has said the donations won't influence the outcome of its investigations. "The government does not like the timing of the offers," notes Seoul-based business consultant Hank Morris. Maybe the next Korean company to come under fire won't be so quick to open its checkbook...
...It’s not about taking out the institutional checkbook and writing a big check,” Greenblatt says...