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...Detroit Tigers baseball team lost an important asset last week when its newly hired outfielder, Fred Lynn, failed to qualify for postseason play. Reason: he got caught in a traffic jam. Lynn was playing in Anaheim, Calif., for the Baltimore Orioles when he accepted Detroit's offer late Wednesday afternoon. But to qualify for the playoffs under league rules, he had to join the team, then in Chicago, by midnight. The Tigers chartered a jet for Lynn at Ontario (Calif.) International Airport, but rush-hour congestion reportedly stretched his 35-minute drive to an hour and 15 minutes. That proved...
...worse than he does among men. Lamented a Republican political consultant as he pored over poll data from a solidly conservative district in Ohio last week: "Among women under 40, he gets 35%; among women over 40, he gets 33%. Either way, he gets annihilated." Illinois Republican Congresswoman Lynn Martin, a Bush adviser, calls the gender gap the "400-lb. gorilla" of the campaign...
There's no question that this team has the talent to win the division, or at least make a serious run for the playoffs. Last year's bumper crop of rookies, the best the Red Sox have had since Jim Rice and Fred Lynn came up together in 1975, has already proved itself as no one-year fluke. And the oft-maligned older veterans aren't playing too badly either...
Realizing the weakness of such arguments, Illinois Congresswoman Lynn Martin last week introduced legislation that would place congressional employees, as well as workers of the federal judiciary, under federal civil rights and employment laws. She says that if her proposal had been law, the Pappas tragedy "could have been avoided...
...boring but I love it," DemocraticNational Committee Vice Chairman Lynn Cutler saidas she surveyed a race that has gone fromturbulent to utterly predictable over the pastmonth with a string of Dukakis primary victoriesin Connecticut, Wisconsin, New York andPennsylvania...