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...given the same weight as on-the-record comments from actual witnesses. (And sometimes more weight.) This ascribes far too much authority to what may be nothing more than idle gossip or office chitchat. It also fails to account for sources who may have their own axes to grind...
...creates bigger setbacks for older athletes. Nolan Ryan, the 44- year-old flamethrowing pitcher for the Texas Rangers, doesn't allow himself an off-season, and is said to have perfect mechanics, meaning not just that his arm leverage lets him throw smoke but that his joints don't grind themselves to powder. This makes Ryan, who shows no sign of retiring, an unlikely prospect for a comeback, but never say never...
Spring break provides Harvard students with an escape from the intense intellectual grind of mid-terms. Talk is not of books but of beer, and when books are discussed they tend to be fat paperbacks with lurid covers more easily found in the local supermarket than any Harvard library...
...that timetable could grind to a halt amid fresh outbreaks of black- against-black violence or a growing backlash from disaffected whites. Less than 24 hours after Mandela and Buthelezi embraced last week, an A.N.C.-Inkatha clash killed at least eight people and injured 60 others in Natal province, where most of the country's 6 million Zulus live. In Pretoria police used nightsticks and tear gas to battle 5,000 white farmers who paralyzed traffic by parking farm vehicles on downtown streets. Backed by the Conservative Party and the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, the protesters demanded...
...49ers don't figure to get many openings from the Giants, a hard-nosed, grind-it-out team that makes few mistakes. While the 49ers stress improvisation and finesse, the Giants play tough, physical football that builds on a rock-ribbed defense. "So we're methodical," says All-Pro outside linebacker Lawrence Taylor. "Who cares as long...