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Also, to Steinbrenner's credit, he has earnestly refrained from setting the standard when it comes to salaries. If anything, he put himself and his team at risk last season when he refused to sign Derek Jeter to an extension that would have made him the highest-paid player in the game...
...fare on Animal Planet into a cable success story. In just over four years, the network, a spin-off of the Discovery Channel, has become available in 66 million homes; it's opening a stage show at Universal Studios this spring and sells a line of toys; and, analyst Derek Baine of Paul Kagan Associates estimates, it had revenue of more than $100 million last year...
Short of including students and faculty on the search committee, releasing the list would be the best step the committee could take toward involving the community in the process. When Derek C. Bok was named president in 1970, the search committee received 1,200 names of possible candidates-almost three times the number that the current committee received. While there are undoubtedly many reasons for the dramatic decline, it seems clear that the community is not nearly as engaged in the search process as it could be. On the other hand, if the community had a chance to comment...
...this is not Derek Jeter masquerading as the V-Spot. Alex Rodriguez did all of baseball a favor by taking Tom Hicks' ridiculous 10 year, $252 million contract to play shortstop for the Texas Rangers. Mark my words, when the history of baseball is written, this contract will be considered as epoch changing as the actions of Curt Flood and Marvin Miller...
...tent at spring training from which to sell A-Rod souvenirs; a private marketing staff and an office at the park. Oh, yes, and a special request of the Mets: a guarantee that A-Rod would enjoy a greater billboard presence in Gotham than his crosstown rival, shortstop Derek Jeter of the Yankees...