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Colleges and professional minor leagues coexist in baseball and hockey. There is no reason the same can't be true for basketball and football. It is unfortunate that the only way to make it happen is by letting the schools retain the ownership of these teams, and the huge profits that go along with them. Still, it is a far cry better than the special brand of hypocrisy being practiced by the NCAA and colleges across the country...
...victory in France's parliamentary elections a year ago, he and Socialist President Francois Mitterrand found themselves in unexplored political territory. Never before in the 28-year history of France's Fifth Republic had a Premier, or head of government, on one side of the political spectrum had to coexist with a President, or head of state, on the other. Now, halfway into the two-year experiment the French call cohabitation, Chirac, 54, has helped make the power-sharing arrangement work better than most political observers had thought possible. But in the process the ambitious Premier may have lost ground...
Life and death coexist with a unique ecological compactness. Nothing is wasted. First the lion dines, and then the hyena, and then the vulture, then the lesser specialists, insects and the like, until the carcass is picked utterly clean, and what is left, bones and horns, subside into the grass. It has been an African custom to take the dead out into the open and leave them unceremoniously for the hyenas...
...settings range from Vienna to Brooklyn to Missouri to Northern California, with numerous points in between. The common thread in Morris' stories, both early and late, is an odd, intense vision of life after nearly all passion has been spent. Well into their marriages, husbands and wives coexist in uneasy truces, wondering whether their remaining energies will run in tandem or blow each other apart...
BOTH CUOMO, the dyed-in-the-wool Democrat and D'Amato, the conservative who gained victory on Reagan's coat-tails in 1980, peacefully coexist in New York politics. Cuomo, along with the Democratic Party, has failed to challenge D'Amato's hold over the state. Hardly a flashy speaker, the senator has used back-room politicking to amass a $7-million war-chest, and judging from Cuomo's bungled attempt to have the party nominate Dyson, the governor doesn't squirm at having New York represented by an ardent conservative...