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...exciting for them because they felled the rich, advantaged Yankees. I know it seems unfair that New York's vast television revenue gives the Yankees a permanent advantage. If all the cities had the same amount of money, every year might be as exciting in a roll-of-the-dice way, but there would be no truth in it. America is a nation of vast economic, educational and ethnic disparities. The Yankees are the real America. Where else can whites, blacks, Asians and Hispanics play happily together except on a team worth $180 million? If I were an Inuit second...
...ELEANOR HOLM WHALEN, 90, saucy Olympic swimming champion; in Miami. After winning the gold medal in the 100-m backstroke at the 1932 Games, she was favored to win again in 1936 in Berlin. But before the Games, she was thrown off the U.S. team for drinking and throwing dice with sportswriters. Her bad behavior, ahead of its time, propelled her to celebrity. She appeared in the movie Tarzan's Revenge and swam in Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair, a spectacle that landed her on the cover of TIME...
...DIED. ELEANOR HOLM WHALEN, 90, glamorous and saucy swimming star who won a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics but was kicked off the American team four years later for late-night carousing; in Miami. On the trans-Atlantic voyage to the 1936 Olympics, Holm spent an afternoon shooting dice with sportswriters and then stayed up late for "a few glasses of champagne." Her expulsion from the team made headlines, and Holm ended up writing about the Games for a wire service. She then acted in Tarzan's Revenge and performed in impresario-husband Billy Rose's Aquacade...
...political plan is a major roll of the dice for Washington. The harsh reality of the escalating insurgency has forced the Bush administration to abandon its program for direct U.S. supervision of a slow and thorough transition to Iraqi democracy. Instead, sovereign authority and control of the transition will be placed in the hands of a government chosen by Iraqis - even if the "electorate" is confined to elites vetted by Iraqis previously chosen by the U.S. to run various local, provincial and national councils...
Remember Dungeons & Dragons, that game for anyone who was too smart for his own good in high school and didn't have a date on Friday night? Time was you needed a pencil, books of character information, a sturdy imagination, similarly afflicted friends and the ever-present 20-sided dice to play the game...