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Americans are not exactly innocents at the game of exploitation for the greater glory of baseball. In Sugarball (Yale University; $19.95), sociologist Alan M. Klein examines the underside of baseball in the Dominican Republic, the poverty-stricken nation famous for two cash crops: sugarcane and big- & league shortstops. Klein depicts the Dominican "academies," where teenage prospects are recruited, trained and evaluated by major-league clubs, as "the baseball counterpart of the colonial outpost, the physical embodiment overseas of the parent franchise." Even though Klein's ire is sometimes ill-concealed and the book actually contains a section called "Baseball...
...musicians on the record -- including Mitchell's husband of eight years, bass player Larry Klein -- have some jazz background. They know, as Mitchell puts it, "how to see around corners." They can lend her delicate rhythms a strong foundation without blowing them away. Mitchell's own prominent acoustic guitar gives the whole album a kind of casual, offhand luster. "Initially, I was taken for a folk singer," Mitchell reflects. "Then folk singing was out of vogue and folk rock was in. Then for a while I was considered to be a country musician. My music ((now)) is not jazz...
...Nelson (P), 24.14; 2. Hutchinson (H), 24.29; 3. Klein...
...goods at 20% to 60% off the usual retail price, a requirement that is specified in the stores' leases and that distinguishes such discount centers from ordinary malls. Try on a $218 Ann Taylor dress, slashed to $69.90. Reebok Sole Trainers that normally retail for $85, at $55. Anne Klein II perfume at $17.95 instead of the usual $32. More than 1.5 million shoppers , have done so since Sawgrass opened its doors in October. "Everybody is looking for bargains these days," says William Cohen, 36, waving a pair of jeans selling at $30 -- half-price -- at the jammed Guess? outlet...
Some analysts thought that the gap between male and female opinion would moderate with the passing of the macho Ronald Reagan. Not so, says political scientist Ethel Klein of Columbia University: "Women and men are now taking a different lens to politics." What many women see through their glass is a less hospitable vista than men perceive. Polls show, for instance, that women are consistently more bearish on the economy than men, often by a margin of a dozen points or more. Perhaps because they earn less than men and have less job security, they feel more vulnerable to hard...