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With baseball, expansion is pretty much the same thing, without the Patriot missiles. A well-planned expansion, like the 1969 addition of the Kansas City Royals, can go well. But if you don't pick the right market and form a team that wins games within five or six years, you have the Seattle Pilots. A washout in the Pacific Northwest, the team changed ownership and moved to Milwaukee to become the Brewers...
...plans to purchase the system for itself, but when the rockets go into production, America may help buy some for Israel. Some Pentagon officials are seething because they see the Arrow as redundant: the U.S. has three similar anti-tactical missile systems, including an updated version of the Patriot, that could be given or sold to Israel...
...Jewish community in which he enjoys such wide support, should issue a pardon on behalf of Jonathan Pollard. Bush intervened to assist Weinberger--a man who called for undue harshness against Pollard. Clinton should turn around and pardon Pollard--a target of unfair treatment at the hands of a "patriot" who wasn't so clean himself...
...tempting it is for a star-spangled American patriot to view Europe's growing Bill-and-Hillary fascination as proof that the world still needs a strong and resolute U.S. Europe's woeful incapacity to stop the near genocidal carnage in Bosnia buttresses this argument, as do the American troops whose orders read "Somalia." Yet imagine the reaction if the new Democratic President were someone older and grayer, a Walter Mondale, say, or a Lloyd Bentsen. An aura of anticipation? Unlikely. Rather, the likely response would be a halfhearted shrug at business as usual in the global amphitheater...
...writers from the Globe and Boston Rock, as well as the Boston Phoenix posse, looking very hip and in-the-know (I have to say this. I work for them); club warlord Pat Lyons (the emperor of Lansdowne Street), Don Law (the Godfather of Boston booking), members of Aerosmith, Patriot quarterback Scott Zolak, Boston Bruin Cam Neely and Motown records chair Jheryl Busby. A House of Blues executive buttonholes Phoenix arts editor Ted Drodzowski and tells him, "The House of Blues isn't about t-shirts and baseball caps. By the way, let me introduce you to our marketing director...