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Despite their importance, umpires are the invisible men of baseball. Players and fans insult them, though never by printable names. Official histories ignore them. The authoritative Baseball Encyclopedia contains profiles of every man who ever played or managed a team in the major leagues; it makes no mention of those who called the plays...
...only sorry that in your article "Opening the Tax Battle" [July 7] you didn't mention the insult to the intelligence of the American public by the candidates trying to hide behind tax-cut promises until they can slide through another election. They could have at least tried to find something more believable to make promises about...
Americans are now defensively aware of their history: they are in transit from a Ptolemaic to a Copernican view of themselves, and a scaling down of their range and ambitions in the world. The diminution, even the implicit insult of the process, is painful. It prompts some insistent revisions in the creed. Where once equality of opportunity was enough (there seemed an immense river to drink from, why give out numbers?), the continent is sufficiently depleted to start a crisis in political philosophy. Who gets what? And why? Equality of opportunity competes with equality of result. Where once the able...
With the offense now in full gear, the Crimson continued to add insult to injury with three more tallies in the final period, including an awesome acrobatic display by the agile Mike Ward to open the quarter. Ward leapt into the air to sang a Predun pass and then twisted to shoot, releasing the ball over the head of his defender and hurling it past the surprised Craig Hornig, gamely protecting the Bulldog nets...
...apparently as part of a continuing effort to improve its often tempestuous relations with the Shah, Iraq's government asked Khomeini to leave the country, thereby obliging him to spend the last four months of his exile in France. Khomeini has neither forgotten nor forgiven that insult. Last week he openly urged Iraqis to "wake up and topple this corrupt regime in your Islamic country before it is too late." With comparably strong provocation against the Iraqi government, headed by President Saddam Hussein, Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr said that Iran welcomed the opportunity of "liberating the people of Iraq...