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...baseball commissioner's office rejected the contract because of the indictment provision, they're false. On Tuesday, the office told the Giants that language involving the personal appearances that Bonds would have to make on behalf of the team was inconsistent with the collective bargaining agreement. "It was a minor thing," said baseball spokesman Richard Levin. "We told them to delete it or rephrase it." By the end of the day, the AP reported that the Giants had already sent Bonds' agent a revised contract, but that he was not yet ready to sign...
...having him miss a couple of weeks, but it would really be a disappointment to see him sidelined, especially with this being his last year.”“We don’t really know what is going on, but hopefully it’s something minor,” freshman J.P. O’Connor said. “We don’t want to draw any conclusions right now, and obviously Bode is extremely important to this team, but we’re going to stay positive.”The Crimson, already struggling...
...sense, that's minor horsetrading. Even if they are going only so far forward at the minute, Adams and McGuinness can't now step back from the party's decision. Opposition to law enforcement is no longer a strategic principle. Martin McGuinness's future is in talking to the police instead of hiding from them - or worse. At this point, anything else would...
...understood its near paralyzing grip on U.S. public attention. They assumed that the scandal was nothing much more than politics as usual. Many Europeans, for example, thought Americans were being unsophisticated, moralistic and, above all, naive to force a President to resign over what looked to them like a minor matter. The scandal now rocking Washington?involving as it does seemingly hypocritical diplomacy, arms deals and the secret funding of a guerrilla army?is much more comprehensible to the rest of the world, even if some of its features seem as bizarre in Perugia as they do in Peoria...
...apartment buildings along Lake Michigan were deluged for a more ominous reason: the water in the Great Lakes is rising to record levels. This year even minor storms may cause major damage. Those who live along the shores of what constitutes the largest body of fresh water in the world are trying desperately to protect their property, dumping sandbags in front of their homes, even moving entire houses to higher ground. Erie, the shallowest lake, has grown especially dangerous as waves several feet high smash against homes. "We haven't had water levels like this since we started keeping records...