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...March 22, the Crimson tied the game at four in the eighth inning only to have a lead-off single by Stetson in the bottom of the ninth turn into the eventual winning run in the 5-4 loss...
...team which will emerge from the American League is Cleveland. Remember how Seattle almost beat them in 1995? A similar thing will happen in their epic seven-game series. Ken Griffey, Jr., will drop a routine fly ball in the ninth inning of the decisive game. Phil Knight weeps bitter tears...
Here's a sign the economy may be in real trouble: the baby boomers, legendary for their spending and borrowing, are slipping into debt hell. And at least one major credit-card company is starting to feel the heat. Advanta, the nation's ninth largest issuer of plastic, stunned Wall Street last week by forecasting a loss of $20 million in the first quarter. The company relies on a computer model to pick more affluent customers, who are offered a large credit line and teaser rates as low as 5.9%. The result: the number of cardholders jumped from 2 million...
...they are both richer than Croesus and maybe even Jack Nicklaus. They play with the same swashbuckling style. Woods was all over the course on Thursday, but as he said, "I got the ball in the hole somehow." Palmer's round came apart after he tried to hit the ninth green in two from a bad lie and pulled the ball out of bounds, leading to a triple bogey. "If I play in a tournament," says Palmer, "I'm still foolish enough to think that I can win." And though they are both fiercely competitive, they seem to like nothing...
JERUSALEM: "Violence, sadly, is the only card the Palestinians have," notes TIME's Johanna McGeary. Despite two days of shuttle diplomacy by Dennis Ross, the Palestinians continue to play it on Friday. For the ninth straight day, Palestinians and Israeli police traded rocks and fire-bombs for tear gas and rubber bullets in Hebron. Benjamin Netanyahu maintains that Yasser Arafat unleashes militants at will, using violence as a bargaining chip. He and insisted Friday on a decisive crackdown. That seems unlikely. "Arafat has to weigh whether a crackdown is worth the political price he will pay with the right," notes...