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...deal. Eight votes against will doom the deal. And that means more of the status quo: no revenue sharing and no luxury tax, both measures aimed at restraining salaries and closing the gap between richer and poorer teams. And for next year, a labor future that is highly dubious. May have questioned why acting Commissioner Bud Selig has not yet come out in favor of a deal struck by Levine, the negotiator he appointed. Selig's statement? "I believe there will be a vote (today)...We shall see what we shall see." Baseball indeed seems rudderless as it hurtles toward...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Federal agencies have used the [Endangered Species Act] to literally shut down healthy and productive timberlands based on false assumptions and dubious science...
...logic and order, with straight, broad thoroughfares befitting the capital of a new democratic nation. Under federal control since its inception, the District wasn't granted suffrage until the 23rd Amendment in 1961, and didn't obtain self-rule until 1974. In recent years, Washington once earned the dubious honor of being the murder capital of the U.S., and it mimics the Third World with its two distinct societies: the affluence of the mostly white northwest and the equally extreme poverty of mostly black Anacostia, where infant mortality is twice the national average...
...notice. Clinton could decide to defend himself so that any victory he has contains an element of redemption, not just victory. And he could go on the offensive. Certainly, stories about Dole's Aqua-Leisure contributions by way of Hong Kong are the moral equivalent of Al Gore's dubious, vegetarian fund raiser at the Buddhist temple. The word gotcha isn't glued to the word journalism for nothing. Freddy Kreuger came back enough times; so could the hatchet...
...perfect spot to solicit from them when he moved on to the D.N.C. In this job he was praised by Clinton himself for being wonderfully "aggressive." So it's no wonder that Huang was unlikely to police any questionable donations; he had arranged them. Last week several more dubious contributions set up by Huang came to light, each raising the question of why party officials are given the job of regulating themselves...