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...doubly sad whenever time claims a ballplayer, because the game is predicated on the suspension of ordinary temporality. "Uniquely among team sports, baseball proceeds outside of time," Roger Kahn observes in his new book October Men (Harcourt; 382 pages). "There is no clock." But the air of eternity that lingers over the grass only shows up the ephemerality of those who play on it--baseball is not a sport of the gods, it's a sport of mortals, and ballplayers are even more human than other athletes. They tend to be of average size and weight, unlike the Star Wars...
...started keeping the department headquarters, then located in the basement of Grays Hall, open round-the-clock and equipped the officers with one-way pocket radios that allowed them to be in constant contact with headquarters...
Students cramming for impending exams and racing the clock to hand in final projects on time faced an unforeseen obstacle Monday afternoon: the network went down...
Three weeks ago, rowing wasn’t Lehe’s primary concern. When he got out of bed to turn off his alarm clock on April 20, Lehe managed to get one foot on the ground before he collapsed...
With the show being taped round the clock and selectively edited, Nowinski was often portrayed in a way completely inconsistent with his usual personality...