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...ANGELES: In a period of managerial turmoil in baseball, Tom Lasorda was a mainstay for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Now, after 20 years at the helm, the man who bled Dodger Blue is retiring. Lasorda, 68, underwent an angioplasty procedure last month when it was determined he had a heart attack. He was cleared medically to return, but realized it made sense to retire. "For me to get into a uniform again I could not continue," said Lasorda, his voice shaking. "I decided it's best for me and the organization to step down. That's quite a decision." Lasorda...
...ANGELES: In a period of managerial turmoil in baseball, Tom Lasorda was a mainstay for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Now, after 20 years at the helm, the man who bled Dodger Blue is retiring. Lasorda, 68, underwent an angioplasty procedure last month when it was determined he had a heart attack. He was cleared medically to return, but realized it made sense to retire. "For me to get into a uniform again I could not continue," said Lasorda, his voice shaking. "I decided it's best for me and the organization to step down. That's quite a decision." Lasorda...
...ANGELES: In a period of managerial turmoil in baseball, Tom Lasorda was a mainstay for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Now, after 20 years at the helm, the man who bled Dodger Blue is retiring. Lasorda, 68, underwent an angioplasty procedure last month when it was determined he had a heart attack. He was cleared medically to return, but realized it made sense to retire. "For me to get into a uniform again I could not continue," said Lasorda, his voice shaking. "I decided it's best for me and the organization to step down. That's quite a decision." Lasorda...
Indeed, Leary's recent guest list is both eclectic and electric: Yoko Ono, goddaughter Winona Ryder, former Mama Michelle Phillips, dolphin researcher John Lilly, onetime Dodger catcher Johnny Roseboro, the widow of Aldous Huxley, the members of the industrial-metal group Ministry, and Ram Dass, who used to be Leary's old Harvard bud Richard Alpert. Oh, yes, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins just dropped by and dropped off a tape of Dead Man Walking. "It's a little hectic up here," says Leary's personal assistant, a young woman with magenta-streaked hair, Technicolorfully tattooed legs...
Dornan, who referred to President Clinton as "a triple draft-dodger" and named officials he would appoint to his cabinet if elected (including 1992 vice presidential candidate Admiral James Bond Stockdale as secretary of defense), said he is particularly concerned with the dire financial and moral crises facing the nation...