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Winnie and Don Mattingly were the most consistent performers during a decade of disappointments for the Bronx Bombers. While Mattingly is still around (although he's not too fond of George, and has had to endure inane criticism from General Manager Gene Michael about, of all things, his hair length), Winfield was traded to California in 1990 for injury-prone pitcher Mike Witt...
...late CBS commentator Eric Sevareid was fond of pointing out, there is plenty of biased reading and hearing as well as reporting. Many news consumers object fiercely to a story not because it is inaccurate but because the truth it tells is unhelpful to their side. Often the objection is not to the content but to the amount of attention it is given, and thus to the story's effect on public opinion. That amounts to denouncing media manipulation while urging an alternative manipulation of the electorate's right to know...
...hustling inmates to the electric chair, Carnes appeared to be on a smooth course to confirmation before the question of racism in the justice system was illuminated by the fires of Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict. Meanwhile, the Democratic dream of recapturing the White House moved from fond hope to real prospect. After 12 years in which the Reagan and Bush Administrations have filled three-quarters of all federal judgeships with mostly conservative appointees, some Democrats in Congress are now thinking twice about giving fast approval to the dozens of White House court nominees who await confirmation...
Alums of Iowa's Greenfield High bid the place a fond farewell...
...siblings' eyes from child- woman to Other Woman. Dylan, the seven-year-old girl adopted by Farrow and Allen, is scarred by the accusations of child abuse. And the other children must be suffering psychic retinal damage from the blinding heat of the infotainment dragon. Another casualty is the fond notion -- held by many otherwise cynical folk on both coasts and by not a few people in between -- that the Woody-Mia story was a liaison for the ages. This was the last light that failed...