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...there is an unquantifiable loss. The pastoral joys of baseball, joys that no other sport can match, have dissipated. That final prestrike game at Oakland Coliseum last Thursday night can serve as a parable. A balmy summer night, small children with oversize mitts dreaming of foul balls, peanuts, Cracker Jack and the familiar Take Me Out to the Ball Game played during the seventh-inning stretch. But then it came time for the refrain "It's one! two! three strikes, you're out!" A chorus of boos rose from the stands...
...Noises Off" has a built-in safety net for any foul-ups: the audience is watching a play within a play. If the sound effects are off, the set tacky, the lines flubbed, the sardines late for their entrance, it can be blamed on the crazily inept production of "Nothing On," rather than the cast and crew of "Noises Off." Fortunately, HRST is more than capable of working without a net. The production, at least from the house, runs flawlessly...
...coroner's foul-up was particularly painful to some in the D.A.'s office who had opposed using deputy medical examiner Irwin Golden to head the coroner's investigation. Citing Golden's reputation for sloppiness, several deputy D.A.s had urged lead prosecutor Marcia Clark to get someone else assigned. "It'll be O.K.," Clark responded. She soon learned otherwise. Among the errors that forensic experts see as most serious: the contents of Nicole Simpson's stomach, which would have been useful in pinpointing the time of her death, were discarded, and her bloody clothes were improperly placed in a communal...
...soon forget the images of a young Americus woman screaming as the waters of Town Creek engulfed her car and swept her and her baby downstream. Or of dozens of coffins from Albany cemeteries bobbing in the clay-stained waters that washed through city streets. Or of the foul smell that permeated rural Macon County for days after 250,000 chickens drowned, forcing National Guardsmen to don masks to pick up the rotting carcasses...
...carrying relief supplies have circled for hours over the tiny, clogged airport at Goma, Zaire, then landed in Kenya or Uganda because they were running low on fuel. (Zairian authorities charged a fee of $2,000 from each U.S. aircraft that did land.) Many aid workers are blaming the foul-ups on French forces who have run the airport since mid-June. U.N. officials, meanwhile, suspended other American flights because they had received more aid than they could distribute amid a shortage of trucks and personnel. The chaos of goodwill comes as the tally of cholera deaths rises above...