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City officials said yesterday they found no evidence of raw sewage under the Anderson Bridge, despite comments by rowers that a foul odor emanates from the area...
Comparing Willamson to a "punch-drunk prize fighter who has lost every round to a better opponent," Terkel said, "it's the last round and he hasn't a ghost of a chance of winning unless he hits foul punches...
...dreams of the impoverished people who revere him than about the man himself. He is hailed as a philosopher-warrio r, yet much of his best writing is shamelessly cribbed from Mao. As for being a warrior, while Guzman seems to have no compunction about ordering up the most foul atrocities, no one knows if he has ever killed anyone himself...
These debates will have to wait, for the baseball hierarchy is engaged in the ugly spectacle of sliding outside the foul lines and getting its uniform soiled. The combatants are Fay Vincent, the eighth commissioner of baseball, and the majority of team owners, who have chafed under his three-year reign. In Chicago last week, the dissidents convened an extraordinary meeting -- an Apalachin summit of every capo di tutti baseball capi -- and told Vincent, 54, to clean out his locker. By a vote of 18 to 9 (with one abstention), the owners declared that "the major league clubs...
...greed goes on. When the baseball diamond is as big as the Ritz, the real game will not be played between the foul lines. It will be conducted in boardrooms and back rooms, on the field of schemes. Franchise swapping will be the richest established permanent floating crap game in the business world. It's a no-lose game called Monopoly. And few of the players care that it means winning ugly...