Word: hanks
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...tone-deaf suit or a chivalrous protector of the integrity of America's favorite pastime? Bowie Kuhn, commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1984, tangled aggressively with high-profile players like Hank Aaron and Jim Bouton and owners like George Steinbrenner, and chafed in 1969 when Curt Flood unsuccessfully sued the league to become a free agent. (In 1977 arbitrators ruled in favor of free agency.) But Kuhn launched the playoffs, ruled that female reporters should have equal access to the locker room, inked a deal with NBC to air night games of the World Series...
...Tiny Selma, a sleepy town of less than 20,000, was a hubbub of politicians and media. Alabama Senator Hank Sanders, who invited Obama, contributed the national attention to the importance of Selma in the voting rights movement. "Selma is a symbol for the whole world," Sanders said...
...DIED. Hank Bauer, 84, gruff former U.S. Marine and linchpin for the New York Yankees during the team's run of nine pennants and seven World Series from 1949 to 1959; in Shawnee Mission, Kans. The hard-nosed slugger won two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star for heroism during World War II. As a player, he set a Series record by hitting safely in 17 consecutive games. He later managed the Baltimore Orioles to their first Series title, in a memorable upset over the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1966. The two-time American League manager of the year said...
...police draw blood after a suspected drunk driving accident. But not always. Americans, for example, can't currently be compelled to give a DNA sample. Nor can they be forced to submit to an MRI or have electrodes fixed to their skulls without consent or a court order, says Hank Greely, a Stanford law professor. But it's conceivable that prosecutors might become much more aggressive in demanding brain scans--"like a search warrant for the brain," he suggests. "There's little precedent, and we're moving into new and scary territory...
...leave it alone,'" he says. "Their discussion is all about, 'how fast do we move?'" He and his boss in the White House are hoping China's leaders move decisively within the next two years, before Bush's term expires and a new Cabinet is appointed. Otherwise, Hank Paulson might be the last friendly face at the U.S. Treasury the Chinese see for a while...