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...past week, the crack of the bat has again been heard in the Cactus and Grapefruit leagues, and spring training, if not spring itself, fills the air. As always, there is the heady talk of the preseason, the look at new signees and new prospects. Look hard this year; you may not see America's pastime for a while. The owners are likely to cause trouble when the bargaining agreement expires at season's end. A long lockout may mean the end of baseball as we know it, while retirement may grab other greats, like my hometown hero, Tony Gwynn...
...dejected as the team, Rahul and I were driven back to Cambridge that night by our crack sports photographer Jonelle Lonergan. Surely, I thought, Harvard would win at Yale and regain momentum heading into the final stretch of the Ivy season. After some merriment and ill-advised emails, I slept soundly before our next trip...
...other than to make the most of ecstasy's unexpected side effect the couple of times a month he went clubbing. He also kept quiet about his chance discovery, since, in Britain as in many countries, taking the drug is a criminal offense as serious as using heroin or crack cocaine...
...Those ideas would require plenty of diplomatic arm-twisting and would take years to implement. A common E.U. asylum policy isn't expected before 2004. Until then European countries will set their own standards, which isn't great news for immigrants. A new Spanish law that aims to crack down on smuggling also provides for the expulsion of immigrants residing in the country without legal permission. Italy has opened a broad front in its battle against illegal immigration: the government has established repatriation accords with East European and North African countries under which illegal immigrants apprehended on Italian territory...
...nutshell, the Albanian extremists are trying to tell KFOR, "Don't interfere or you'll be next. Don't try to crack down on us." The message is that the extremists are capable of operating on a sophisticated level that exposes KFOR's weaknesses...