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...collective bargaining agreement. There is no way that over half of the owners can put their names on the dotted line of a system that allows the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Orioles, Braves, Red Sox and now the Rangers to spend them in oblivion. These smaller markets cannot permit themselves to be a de facto minor league operation for the big clubs, developing talent until they become available free agents. Yes, it's possible for a team like Oakland to compete, but GM Billy Beane has been nothing short of brilliant, and he has no room for error. How much will...
...plenty of them: more than 1,000 citizens loudly exercising their First Amendment rights, including Falun Gong members and Maryland high school kids, Republican mothers and Al Sharpton, a lady breezing by in a mink coat and a haggard man with a braided beard who was clutching a protest permit. At one point, the Bushies began yelling, "Con-cede again!" Which of course drew the Gore partisans' response, "Don't get snippy!" But scattered among the protesters were plenty of regular folks who waited hours--and even spent the night in tents--for a chance to watch the proceedings...
Strait has her resident permit, and Anderson has applied for his. While neither can work in France, each is focused on making a new life. "You almost re-create yourself once you move abroad, because there are none of the usual frames of reference," says Anderson. "The transition can be a mental and emotional challenge--as well...
...hand, this entails a willingness to engage in dialogue with other organizations, but, on the other hand, and perhaps more importantly, this entails a willingness to permit dialogue within the walls of an organization itself. Indeed, organizations that are officially recognized, and oftentimes funded, by the University ought to allow students to become active members regardless of whether their beliefs are consistent with the dominant ideology espoused by the group. The College Democrats may not agree with individuals who espouse Republican beliefs just as Harvard Right to Life may not agree with students who are pro-choice...
...disconcerting. As students we ought not settle for a policy that may or may not protect an individual from being forced to renounce the validity of his or her identity in order to gain membership in a student group. We ought not feel comfortable with a policy that may permit organizations to deny women membership because they hold the "political belief" that they deserve equal rights with men, deny blacks membership because hold the "political belief" that they deserve equal rights with whites, or deny homosexuals membership because they hold the "political belief" that their identity is moral. Like Tufts...