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...minute tape is hardly clandestine, but it's not in heavy news rotation either. Two silver-haired men chat in a cozy office. Dan Yeary, pastor of the North Phoenix Baptist Church, calls it "a blessing" to include his companion "in our family and our fellowship." He asks if they might talk about prayer...
...going to lose the crucial Michigan primary. His wife Cindy tried to lighten the mood, saying that since it had rained that morning, a rarity in parched Arizona, they had an omen of victory. Early Tuesday afternoon, McCain gathered with his staff in the sprawling kitchen of his Phoenix home, where he had just had a haircut. His four younger children ran in and out of the room. "Jack's a pork-barrel spender," joked 11-year-old Jimmy about his 13-year-old brother, using one of his father's favorite insults. Aides chowed on grilled cheese sandwiches while...
DIED. KARSTEN SOLHEIM, 88, golf-club king who brought heel-toe balance to his popular ping putters and revolutionary perimeter weighting to his irons, which increased the sweet spot and allowed more room for error; in Phoenix, Ariz. An engineer, Solheim played his first golf game at age 42 and began tinkering with club designs to improve his handicap...
...BASEBALL The major league version will be wildly popular but just in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston and Phoenix, Ariz. The rest of the teams will have folded long before the end of the century, and only these four megalopolises will have the population base, and thus the cash, to support utility infielders making $100 million a year. The minor leagues will flourish too, in such cities as Toronto and Seattle, where ancient ballparks like the Skydome and Safeco Field will allow fans to remember simpler times, when the game was pure and hitters actually...
...Gore Vidal know how transparent and boring they are in launching their bruised-ego slurs against others in their field? There is plenty of room on this planet for all great writers to reap their monetary and psychological rewards without resorting to such laughable tactics. DALE N. WICKLIFFE Phoenix, Ariz...