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...policy may provides a temporary fix for the Cuban problem, but a comprehensive, permanent solution is only possible if President Clinton sits down at the bargaining table with his bearded rival...
...quickest fix for the Cuban economy would be an end to the 32-year U.S. embargo, but Bill Clinton is not eager to end the cold war-era isolation. In the long run, if Castro will not or cannot adopt free-market reforms, his % country has little hope of ending what Cubans call the "special period": the current era of acute hardship brought on by the fall of the Soviet empire, which had sustained Cuba's command economy until 1991. If he does institute far-reaching changes and the rest of the world -- despite the U.S. embargo -- responds with trade...
...they certainly don't, as every rabid Rotisserie rooter, desperately craving his breakfast box-score fix, can attest. What makes the present condition of baseballus interruptus so galling is that the major leagues as a whole (unlike several individual teams) are prospering. Before the strike, attendance was running a little ahead of the record 70 million who went to games in 1993. Following the opening of Baltimore's fabled Camden Yards in 1992, new baseball-only parks -- combining classic ballyard architecture with modern amenities -- have brought sellout crowds to the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers...
...problem. Fans got two games for the price of one the following night. This week life in the minor leagues is all that baseball fans in serious need of a fix are going to get. Venal owners and petulant players in the majors should take note. This is baseball the way the game is meant to be played: on intimate terms. It is baseball virtually free of mortifying drug scandals -- no player making $1,000 a month can afford a cocaine habit for long. It is baseball on a human scale. When Peoria Chiefs designated hitter Alex Cabrera was fined...
...Dying. Perhaps it is because aids and cancer have implicated us all in the abruptness of extinction, or merely that publishers see a killing in the most universal experience of them all. But that, in either case, may be a blessing: when we spend months, even years, learning to fix a car or speak Portuguese, why should we not try to learn...