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Despite the revenue generated by the first season at their new stadium, Camden Yards, the bottom line ruled Oriole front office decision for years. In the past two years, they ran out of peanuts at Camden Yards concession stands because they were using them to buy free agents. They ran...
But we have seen this pattern before. Whenever NATO or the U.N. has made noise about action against the Serbs, they have made some small concession--and then gone on with the killing. Western leaders have fallen for this ruse over and again.
None of the players on the U.S. side of the game knows for sure whether Pyongyang will make the big concession and halt its drive for nuclear weapons. And if it does, the Clinton Administration is demanding more: the surrender by the North Koreans of any nuclear weapons they have...
The self-congratulation went a bit too far. Some of the asserted accomplishments are still incomplete. Anticrime and campaign-finance-reform bills passed the House and Senate in different versions that must be reconciled by conference committees next year; it is far from certain how strong the final measures will...
Some of Pei's finest achievements are the most practical. In contrast to the hodgepodge that reigned in the old painting galleries, he arranged the rooms to create a succession of schools and periods. He also conceived the sleek black escalator that runs from the underground level up to the...