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...hitting streak), or striking an umpire in the chest, for which he received a 30-day suspension in 1988. Criticism in the press about the friends in thick gold chains and diamond pinky rings who placed wagers for a living did not faze him. Even now, Rose gives little outward sign that what happened has engendered self-doubt. The night before Giamatti's announcement, he was hawking autographed baseballs on Cable Value Network at $39.94 a throw and selling uniforms with his old No. 14 on them, the same number he used with his bookie...
...Japan is increasingly forced to look outward, the short-term impact of this year's elections will be minimal. The upper house is weak under the Japanese system, and all of the day-to-day decision-making power in Japan rests with the bureaucracy, not elected officials...
...These outward signs of reclusiveness prompted much speculation. What was Solzhenitsyn doing in his bucolic isolation? After 13 years, an answer is finally emerging, and it is mind boggling. Aided by Natalya ("I don't think I could have done it without my wife"), he has constructed a virtual factory of literature. Laboring nearly twelve hours a day, seven days a week in a three- story building behind his house that serves both as a workplace and library and as a typesetting and proofreading center, he has produced more than 5,000 printed pages in Russian of an epic called...
...akin to that of Zen rock gardening and Oriental flower arranging. Nakashima selects the exact natural object needed to serve a particular purpose. For a recent table, he used an 8-ft. cross section of redwood root. The wild energy of the wood, complete with cracks and holes, strains outward, as if it were trying to dissolve back into the ground. But the wood is held together in places with 4-in.-wide butterfly-shaped splints of walnut, Nakashima's signature method of prompting the ancient to new service...
...Soviet Union, the latest outbreak of ethnic unrest in Uzbekistan was a reminder of what may be the operative difference between Deng Xiaoping's realm and Mikhail Gorbachev's: in the Middle Kingdom, things fall apart from the center outward, while in the U.S.S.R. it is the other way around. Both face a common challenge in devising ways to meet the demands of their citizens...