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It surely buoys the Rockies' owners, led by trucking magnate Jerry McMorris. Three years ago, it seemed a risky prospect to pay $95 million for a new team in a small market. So the owners cried poor and extracted a sweetheart deal from Denver, which owns Mile High Stadium. This...
But the spectacle, a classic Washington combination of cynicism and naivete, seems different this time. For one thing, the lead hectors are not Helmsian right-wingers but liberal Democrats, Senator Paul Simon and Representative Edward Markey. This time, too, TV executives are groveling a bit, making mea culpas. "It's...
SOME WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS HAVE DECIDED THAT THE WAY to keep big companies behind the new health-care plan is to let them out of it. In a major concession, members of Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care task force say they will recommend to the President that he allow...
On Friday, Christopher and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, as co- sponsors, announced that they would soon invite the parties to a ninth round of talks in April. Israel and the Arab countries had been eager to resume anyway, but were further attracted by Christopher's promise to thrust the...
Cynical musings coming to the fore? Perhaps. It's certainly not a large concession to admit that Clinton has moved the body politic forward in spirit, if not in body. The infamous polls express that quite clearly.