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Born barely captured the ninth seat in 1993, edging out McSweeney by 47 votes, while Davis led the ticket in the school committee race that year...
BASEBALL GOT WHAT IT DIDN'T DEserve. Namely, baseball. A season that began with 48-year-old Pedro Borbon Sr. wheezing and falling off the mound as a replacement pitcher ended with a glorious World Series in which 27-year-old Pedro Borbon Jr. was warming up in the ninth inning for the world champion Atlanta Braves. A season that at first seemed too short because of its 144-game schedule provided fans with too many memories. Forget the owners, forget the union activists, forget the Baseball Network, whatever that was. Remember that the game, if left alone long enough...
...David Justice, who hit a solo homer in the sixth off Jim Poole; Tom Glavine, whose one-hit pitching over eight innings, coupled with his win in Game Two, earned him the Series MVP award; and Mark Wohlers, who dispatched the top of the vaunted Cleveland order in the ninth to give the Braves their first World Championship in 38 years...
Aides to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani quietly asked Yasser Arafat to leave a special New York Philharmonic performance of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" Monday night because he was not invited, the Associated Press reports. Giuliani had said that the PLO leader and Fidel Castro were not to join other dignitaries in town for the U.N. celebration, but Arafat turned up in his highly-visible, checked headress anyway...
...game two, pinch-hitting Mordecai scaled the Rockies in the ninth-inning of game two with a game-winning...