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...ANGELES: In a period of managerial turmoil in baseball, Tom Lasorda was a mainstay for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Now, after 20 years at the helm, the man who bled Dodger Blue is retiring. Lasorda, 68, underwent an angioplasty procedure last month when it was determined he had a heart attack. He was cleared medically to return, but realized it made sense to retire. "For me to get into a uniform again I could not continue," said Lasorda, his voice shaking. "I decided it's best for me and the organization to step down. That's quite a decision." Lasorda...
...ANGELES: In a period of managerial turmoil in baseball, Tom Lasorda was a mainstay for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Now, after 20 years at the helm, the man who bled Dodger Blue is retiring. Lasorda, 68, underwent an angioplasty procedure last month when it was determined he had a heart attack. He was cleared medically to return, but realized it made sense to retire. "For me to get into a uniform again I could not continue," said Lasorda, his voice shaking. "I decided it's best for me and the organization to step down. That's quite a decision." Lasorda...
...Dole took the helm of the Red Cross in February 1991, after resigning as George Bush's Labor Secretary. "I had looked at it very carefully," she recalls. "I had a couple of people go in ahead of me and look at what the challenges were going to be." Indeed, she encountered a deeply troubled organization--far more troubled, according to a source close to Mrs. Dole, than she appreciated. Since the mid 1980s, in response to the onslaught of AIDS, the FDA had begun to toughen its inspection of blood banks. In the process, its field inspectors found widespread...
DIED. BRIGITTE HELM, 88, the robot-vamp actress in Fritz Lang's 1926 cult classic Metropolis; in Ascona, Switzerland...
...course, this is nothing new for anyone slightly familiar with Harvard squash. Coach Bill Doyle has only lost one match while at the helm of the two teams, racking up a combined 109-1 record and winning the national title in each of his four years...