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...inequity is in competitive balance. Only four or five teams could afford even to consider bidding for A-Rod's services or those of, say, Cleveland Indians outfielder Manny Ramirez, who last week signed the game's second richest contract, $160 million for eight years with the Boston Red Sox. Even the demands of mid-level players are soaring beyond the reach of less well-heeled clubs. Kevin Appier, who is hardly Pedro Martinez and isn't even Kevin Brown, will be paid $10 million a year after signing with the New York Mets last week, and the average major...
...dollars to parents who send their kids to private schools. These measures fell by a ratio of more than 2 to 1, despite multimillion-dollar campaigns by wealthy voucher proponents. Then last week, in a verdict with nationwide consequences, a federal appeals court ruled that the voucher program in Cleveland, Ohio, violates the constitutional separation of church and state...
...celebrated. "This is a great early Christmas present for America's public schools," said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. But the unusual pro-voucher coalition of inner-city parents, Catholic clerics and deep-pocketed entrepreneurs vows to fight on. And the Cleveland case, which is likely to go before the U.S. Supreme Court, has the potential to determine whether and how any statewide voucher program can include parochial schools...
DIED. LOU GROZA, 76, all-star Cleveland Browns tackle and place kicker known during his 21-year career as "the Toe"; of an apparent heart attack; in Middleburgh Heights, Ohio. Groza played during an era in which the Browns dominated. His most memorable field goal, performed in black high-top shoes and with a straight-on kicking style rarely used today, was a 16-yd. boot with seconds left, to win the 1950 championship over the L.A. Rams. College football's top kicker each year takes home the Lou Groza Award...
...that they are declining in popularity. According to this year's College Board survey, just 4% of young women expressed interest in applying to all-female schools--the lowest percentage in 12 years. Faced with fewer women applicants, Emmanuel College in Boston and Notre Dame College of Ohio in Cleveland this fall announced they would begin admitting men in 2001. Since 1997, four other women's colleges have gone coeducational. And in July, Trinity College in Burlington, Vt., announced it would close. While the most prestigious schools, such as Barnard, Mount Holyoke and Wellesley, remain strong, women-only colleges have...