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Southpaws Are Expansion Favorites As baseball's expansion teams from Tampa and Arizona make their draft picks, the hot item on everyone's shopping list appears to be left-handed pitchers...
Human rights is the big-ticket item for Clinton, and the Administration has repeatedly said the relationship cannot reach its "full potential" as long as abuses persist. A high-profile gesture from Jiang would help: the release of well-known dissidents like Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan, some sign of religious freedom, a credible retreat on prison labor. But berating Beijing on human rights only injures its sense of sovereignty and challenges the regime's legitimacy. Jiang has given little indication that he is willing to do any of those things for the summit's sake, and China experts...
...first item on his agenda was to diversify the trust's money. "It wasn't prudent," says Williams, "for an institution to have such a large portion of its endowment subject to the vicissitudes of a single stock." After some years of litigation, he and the board managed to clear the way to sell, in 1984, its Getty Oil stock to Texaco for $10 billion. In the end, this gave Williams $2.3 billion to play with in creating the Getty Center. With shrewd management, this endowment has since grown to $4.3 billion--four times that of New York's Metropolitan...
...your item on Bill Clinton's hearing loss [WASHINGTON DIARY, Oct. 13]: I got my hearing aid about five years ago, at age 48. My associates were complaining that I was ignoring them. My boss insisted that I get a hearing aid because he was tired of saying I wasn't ignoring my colleagues but simply couldn't hear them. I contended I was indeed ignoring them; however, I broke down and got a hearing aid anyway. But I'm still ignoring them--all the more now that I can hear all the B.S. they have to say. FRED DESIO...
Senate votes to overrule Clinton on line-item veto of military budget (Reuters...