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Finally. After an off-season highlighted by boring labor meetings, a fruitless search for a commissioner and another Buffalo choke, the 1994 baseball season is almost here to save us from the above drudgery. Maybe its still early, but I'm ready to say that this season will be different--a lot different--than previous ones...
...people who are most concerned about the new retirement law might well not be the administrators, however, but the younger generation of scholars. They could see years of fruitless job searches if aging faculty maintain control of their scarce tenured posts...
...entertainer sexually abused him), the civil suit should be put on hold lest Jackson inadvertently incriminate himself during the proceedings. The other lawyer on the Jackson team, as well as everyone else following the case, suddenly did a double-take. What criminal indictment? As the press made frantic but fruitless calls to the Santa Barbara County office, Fields backpedaled and admitted that he had received the information from someone else and that "evidently it turned out the rumor was false." In any case, the judge denied his request for a delay of the civil suit, setting a trial date...
...English artists Gilbert and George opened at the National Art Gallery in Beijing. Its catalog bore a fulsome essay comparing the two "living sculptures" to Confucius himself and lamenting the utter decadence of so much Western art, which "seems to have lost any moral significance on account of its fruitless search for formal purity. Meaning and ornament . . . have been marginalized . . . The black square painting is a goal that can appeal only to very few aesthetes. Not only the black square but equally the crushed automobile, the Coca-Cola can, and other examples of Western cultural detritus, all threaten to take...
...ironic that the first President of the Vietnam generation--a man who himself opposed that war--would end up in a quagmire even more dangerous and fruitless than Vietnam. For one thing, today's weapons are far more destructive than those of the 1960s. Secondly, there is danger that a Balkan War would spill over out of the region--even into Russia...