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From a purely baseball point of view, it is difficult to place Cal's record on a par with Aaron's home run record or DiMaggio's hitting streak for one reason: these other players actually had to perform on the field to achieve their marks...
...There are likely to be some impacts on our ability to perform other museum activities that I think are important," he said. "I am not optimistic because resources are scarce and it is difficult to raise money for the museum...
...other tricky issue about vouchers is that the cost of private insurance naturally will vary depending on a person's age, health condition and so on. The current Medicare system actually performs two functions. One is subsidizing seniors' health care. The other is "risk pooling": spreading costs evenly among the healthy and the sick, the old and the very old. With vouchers, who will perform that second function...
...novel, The Tortilla Curtain (Viking; 355 pages; $23.95), botches a good theme: the shuddering distaste of California's patio-living Anglos for the Mexican illegals who perform the state's stoop labor. His pale hero is Delaney, a nature writer who has moved with his wife Kyra, a real estate shark, to a housing development above Topanga Canyon. Delaney is not just politically correct, he's politically exquisite, but when a Mexican man, Candido, blunders in front of his white Acura on a canyon road, his reaction is angry revulsion: the wounded wet back, to whom he gives...
...ending: "If the Citadel thinks it can solve the problem through Shannon's leaving, they're dead wrong." Don't tell that yet to the cadets. At the first word that Faulkner was going, many of them cheered, honked car horns and took to a checkerboard-patterned quadrangle to perform triumphant push-ups. Maybe it was heat of all kinds that knocked Faulkner out of the Citadel last week. What no one agrees upon is just what kind of heat mattered most...