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...point is not to contrast Cal Ripken Jr. and Nolan Ryan with Lou Gehrig and Johnny Vander Meer, or even to note that "these sports doctors" have enabled many players to considerably extend their careers. But comparisons between baseball then and now should depend on the opinions of a Tommy Lasorda and not a Chuck Connors. In one of the book's better interviews, Lasorda succinctly describes the most pronounced change in baseball: the power shift from the owners to the players. If the stars of the 1950s actually played "for the love of the game" and not for money...
...succession of Kings constructed enormous reservoirs, some as large as 20 sq. mi. These barays and a complex gravity-fed network of moats and canals provided an almost continuous supply of water so that three rice crops a year could be grown. That production enabled Khmer Kings to extend their empires and build temples to their own divinity. It is the destruction of that intricate water system that could drown most of the major monuments...
Last October, the CUNY board of trustees came under fire from scholars and state officials when it voted to extend Jeffries tenure as chair until the end of June in an effort to assuage racial tensions on campus...
...United Nations has been in the peacekeeping business for most of its 47 years, but never has it undertaken anything quite so ambitious. Beginning this week, the world body will put 36,000 military and civilian personnel on the ground in Yugoslavia and Cambodia, charged with meeting goals that extend far beyond keeping antagonists from each other's throats. The U.N.'s blue helmets are supposed to disarm and disband combatants -- many still seething over real and imagined grievances -- and prepare the way for the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Nor is that all. They are also supposed...
...argues that the changes should extend further to include his revolutionary concept. He bases his suggestions on his experience with the Signet Society, a student artistic and literary organization that invites faculty to become members...