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There is not much the watching world can do to stop it. Bitterly stung by previous attempts to serve as a buffer among Lebanon's feuding militias, Europe and the U.S. steered clear of direct intervention, appealing instead for a campaign of international pressure to quiet the guns. The U.N...
American officials think they know the locations among which the hostages are moved, like peas in a giant, high-stakes shell game. But even if they were found, their guards would be likely to kill them before the rescuers could prevent it. "We've considered going in for the hostages...
For the moment, Rose has managed to delay a disciplinary hearing at which Giamatti could suspend him from baseball for a year (if he was found to have bet on any games at all) or for life (if he bet on his own team -- even to win). Norbert A. Nadel...
The excruciating saga of Pete Rose and gambling seemed to be coming to a shuddering finish last week. A common-pleas judge in Cincinnati was pondering whether to issue a temporary restraining order -- and perhaps turn the Rose investigation over to the courts -- or leave Rose to face Baseball Commissioner...
Kevin Costner is the man of the moment and a star out of his time. What other actor would think to achieve rampant movie fame by playing a Soviet spy and two baseball fanatics? For Costner, though, the improbable risk was a good career move. As Eliot Ness in The...