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...Kelly played some of the best and smartest tennis I've seen from her," Graham said. "Both our captains played really good singles and broke out of minor slumps...
People around the country may think the fuss over the Simpson case is just what Shapiro whispered too loud, but those people don't live in Los Angeles. Local television stations cover the most minor of evidentiary hearings the papers labor over the details and everyone in town offers you an opinion on the case...
...some point the owners may choose to impose their last offer, as is their right under the law. If few players break ranks, the owners could open their training camps to minor leaguers. That would lead to picket lines at spring training and charges of union busting by the Players Association. The issue would move to the courts. By then the 1995 season would be in guarded condition, and the game itself might be moved to intensive care...
...American juvenile-justice system was designed 100 years ago to reform kids found guilty of minor crimes. Increasingly these days, the system is overwhelmed by the Andre Greens, by pint-size drug runners and by 16-year-old gunmen. The response on the part of lawmakers has been largely to siphon the worst of them out of that system by lowering the age at which juveniles charged with serious crimes -- usually including murder, rape and armed assault -- can be tried in adult courts. Last week California Governor Pete Wilson signed a bill lowering the threshold to 14. Earlier this year...
...philosophers, shot in contemplative, dreamy-eyed closeup, treat it as something like a religion. "Baseball is a beautiful thing," says sportscaster Bob Costas. "The way the field fans out. The choreography of the sport. The pace and rhythm of it." Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York and a ^ former minor leaguer, praises baseball's celebration of community, symbolized by the sacrifice bunt: "Giving yourself up for the good of the whole -- that's Jeremiah, that's thousands of years of wisdom." Political commentator George Will sees the sport as ideally suited to our democratic nation: "Democracy is government by persuasion...