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...office for lots of reasons: After graduating, they will likely be rich (enabling the first form of public service) and they will likely be well-qualified (enabling service in the second form). Maybe the first two forms allow public service without precluding affluence and influence. Direct service provision, by contrast, is for the humble and the poor without honor and glory in return. But most important, so the argument goes, is the dichotomy between systematic reform and symptomatic reform...
Closer Jay Gehrke leads the nation in saves, with 18 in 29 appearances, and opponents bat just .182 against him. By contrast, the Crimson's regular first-game starter, Garett Vail, also leads the club with three saves...
Closer Jay Gehrke leads the nation in saves, with 18 in 29 appearances, and opponents bat just .182 against him. By contrast, the Crimson's regular first-game starter, Garett Vail, also leads the club with three saves...
Even Baltimore loyalists were struck by the way players like third baseman Omar Linares, who earns about $100 a month, evoked the grace of Joe DiMaggio and other major league greats of the past. The Cubans' joyful hustle offered quite a contrast to the surly indifference of millionaire Orioles like Albert Belle, who was fanned repeatedly by Cuban pitchers. Says Baltimore fan Paul Koehnlein, a 41-year-old electrical engineer: "The Cubans fill every inning with the heart and the attention to fundamentals that U.S. players don't show our kids anymore...
GOODBYE REYE'S Today, 20 years after doctors realized that Reye's syndrome was linked to taking aspirin, the dreaded childhood illness has virtually disappeared. Only two cases were reported in the U.S. in 1997, in contrast to 550 in 1980. The appearance of even two cases suggests that despite warnings on bottle labels, parents are still giving kids aspirin for viral diseases. That's a no-no, especially with chickenpox...