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...fatal flaw of former Mets GM Steve Phillips was his refusal to rebuild, his stubborn belief that the team would contend and reach greatness with one or two added pieces. He didn’t grasp the concept that baseball isn’t like the NBA, where two superstars can turn any last-place team into championship material. Baseball teams can’t be fixed so easily. Successful teams build from the ground up and then fill in the pieces...
...courts," he says. Geoffrey Stone, a professor at the University of Chicago law school who specializes in constitutional law, says the Blagojevich bill focusing on sexual content has the best chance of succeeding because it would fall under the category of obscenity for minors, which is a widely accepted concept. In contrast, the measure to regulate violent games "is hopeless because there is no recognized constitutional principle that allows the government to shield children from violent expression," says Stone...
...solve the problem of a snowmobile falling through broken ice by welding an aluminum boat around it. That's like making a safer motorcycle by carrying it in a U-Haul trailer. Admittedly, coolness is hard to define, but I never thought ridiculousness was an essential part of the concept. Dexter Ford Manhattan Beach, California...
DIED. ARTHUR LYDIARD, 87, New Zealand track coach widely regarded as the first proponent of jogging as a training technique; of an apparent heart attack while on a U.S. speaking tour; in Houston. Before the frequent marathon winner came up with his then revolutionary concept--that long, slow distance training worked best to develop stamina for all kinds of running--the accepted regimen was a form of short sprinting called interval training. When Lydiard, who was initially dismissed by critics, was not invited to coach New Zealand's Olympic team at the 1960 Summer Games, he paid...
...canceling of classes taught by a Peking University professor who openly criticized China's propaganda system in essays, interviews and lectures. Last month when a Guangdong newsweekly published a list of 50 "public intellectuals," the state-run People's Daily responded with a sharply worded editorial attacking the concept: "What is meant by 'public intellectual' is actually a person who sows discord between intellectuals and the Party...