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...doing a better job of getting the ballinside," Roby said. "It's easier for Gielen to gethis shot off it the other team is worried aboutthe post game...
...America, where monopoly ownership has made many newspapers fair, bland and unadventuresome, Rupert Murdoch, the invading Australian press lord, set out to buck the trend. He bought the liberal tabloid New York Post and turned it into a paper conservative and vindictive in its politics and sensational in its news coverage. Many of his fellow editors and publishers consider him an embarrassment to their craft and a barracuda as well; the lack of respect is mutual ("Most American papers," says Murdoch, "do a few outstanding things, then coast"). Suddenly, however, Murdoch's bold reinvention of cynical, rowdy journalism...
Inter-conference games will count more than ever this year. This year, the NCAA competition committee awarded a berth in the post-season tournament to an independent team. Moreover, it expanded the playoffs from eight to 12 teams with the provision that three conferences would get three bids each and the fourth conference (i.e. the one with the worst inter-conference record) would only...
...Unless something happens to shake the process and skew turnout, George Bush is our nominee. It's going to be real difficult for Bob Dole to overcome some of these numbers." That statement, by an uncommitted Republican strategist in last week's Washington Post, is a common appraisal of how the 1988 presidential election has unfolded...
Despite its post-budget bill voguishness, the line-item veto will not become a reality anytime soon. "It is something that neither this President nor any other President should have," says Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. "It is a quack nostrum." As House Majority Leader Thomas Foley of Washington has suggested, the deficit crisis is essentially a matter of willpower. The White House, the Congress and the American public must decide together to make the sacrifices necessary to reduce the deficit. Until that time, ideas like the line-item veto will remain irrelevant oldies...