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Unlike politics, Shapiro says, covering baseball "teaches you the greatest gift for a writer or reporter: humility." While on his spring-training rounds, he found himself at a St. Petersburg, Florida, game, seated with 20 scouts. "I could hear them murmur about things I didn't see and whisper things I didn't understand." Shapiro believes that politicians would benefit from a similar immersion in humility: "It might be a wonderfully leveling experience for the egos of political leaders if for one campaign season they, like ballplayers, allowed reporters to interview them while they were half- undressed...
...York City. On Feb. 11, a 20-year-old Ethiopian armed with a starter's pistol pirated a Lufthansa jet to J.F.K. Airport, only to be promptly arrested. Last Saturday, a man tentatively identified as an Azeri commandeered a Russian jetliner on a flight from Siberia to St. Petersburg and demanded to be flown to New York. Persuaded to believe that the aircraft did not have enough fuel to cross the Atlantic, the hijacker agreed to stop in Tallinn, Estonia, then Stockholm, Sweden, where he finally surrendered...
...weeks and has since toured profitably. Another Phantom, by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit (Broadway's Nine), ran for a boffo year in Chicago, has been playing for seven triumphant months at the Westchester Broadway Theater in Elmsford, New York, opened this month in Kansas City, Kansas, and St. Petersburg, Florida, and is due in six other cities. The show may never play Broadway, but who needs Broadway when Phantom Mania grips the land...
Taranovsky, who was born in what is now Tartu, Estonia, grew up in Tartu, St. Petersburg and Kharkov. His father, a professor of Slavic law, emigrated with his family to Yugoslavia soon after the Bolshevik revolution...
...better. At one time, Soviet scientists seriously considered changing the course of Siberia's rivers. Economists have repeatedly tried to package the country's development into neat five-year -- if not 500- day -- plans. The strategy does achieve results: Russians built the marvelous city of St. Petersburg out of a desolate, frozen swamp and launched the first satellite into space. They just have not fared as well in producing regular supplies of soap and toilet paper...