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What is it about baseball that commands the attention of grownup men? Some might ask the identical question about our other national pastime, politics. Contributor Walter Shapiro, author of this week's lament on the parlous state of the major leagues, has had ample experience with both obsessions. He nearly won a primary for Congress in Michigan in 1972 and was later a speechwriter for President Carter. His assignments since joining TIME in 1987 have been mostly in politics, including months last year tracking Bill Clinton...
...Ryan's lament can serve as the one-sentence epitaph for major-league baseball: it's not the way it was growing up. Slowly but surely, this most memory-laden of sports, this pastoral isle in a world of flux, is being ripped from its traditional foundations. Watching his World Champion Blue Jays take batting practice, Toronto manager Cito Gaston mused about the eight free agents his team did not re-sign in the off-season, including future Hall of Famer Dave Winfield. "What disappoints me is all the guys who won't be there on opening...
Bruce Springsteen's famous lament 57 Channels (and Nothin' On) now seems almost quaint. Very soon, the 57 will multiply to 500, or somewhere in the neighborhood. And even that will be only a way station. The final destination is a post-channel universe of essentially unlimited choice: virtually everything produced for the medium, past or present, plus a wealth of other information and entertainment options, stored in computer banks and available instantly at the touch of a button...
This is the lament of the computer addict. Woe be unto all ye hackers who choose Harvard! Beware the flickering terminal! Dread the OIT bureaucracy! Clutch thy IBM to thy bosom...
Most public defenders think not. In Memphis, lawyers lament the plead-'em- and-speed-'em-through pace. "It reminds me of the old country song we have here in Tennessee: 'We're not making love, we're just keeping score,' " says chief public defender AC Wharton. Across the country, lawyers watch with frustration as the bulk of criminal-justice funds goes to police protection, prisons and prosecutors, leaving just 2.3% for public defense services. "We aren't being given the same weapons," says Mary Broderick of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "It's like trying to deal with...