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...Steinbrenner, 60, choose perpetual exile into irrelevance over a two-year sentence? The commissioner guesses that Steinbrenner believed the fig leaf of continuing as a silent partner in the Yankees would allow him to hang on to his other sports post as a vice president of the U.S. Olympic Committee. But that is a dubious proposition, since there are already loud rumbles within the Olympic Committee that Steinbrenner will be pressured to resign. Deciphering Steinbrenner's motivations has never been easy, since there is always a peculiar disconnection between his words and his deeds. But last week he was uncharacteristically...
...what proposals? Democrats wanted to use the dread T word somewhere in the statement, but their counterparts preferred something fuzzier. Everyone concurred on "increased tax revenues" in the wan hope, on the White House side, that this compromise might put a fig leaf over what was being said...
...conversation, Father's energy subsided, and the light in his eyes went out. "No one needs me now. What am I going to do without work?" he said to no one in particular. "I've got to learn how to kill time," he would often say. He would mechanically leaf through books from his extensive library, lay them aside and set off on interminable walks...
Until now Democrats have counterbalanced their inability to elect a President by winning a majority in the Congress and in statehouses, but with elections in three Sunbelt states in jeopardy, they run the risk of losing that fig leaf of respectability. For sheer survival, Democrats should try to join the grownups' table and put an end to their days of sibling rivalry. In Florida some party elders, torn between their early commitment to Nelson and a desire to get behind Chiles, are hoping Nelson will drop out in time to run for re-election to his House seat. The deadline...
...visitor, "is that it takes many directions but basically it's all one thing: falling." That reminds him of a Rilke poem, Autumn. "The leaves are falling," he says in singsong paraphrase, playing the passage again, "falling from on high as if from heaven's dying orchards. And each leaf falls with its own special gesture of denial, saying...