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...embossed on bronze plaques in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. All the names can be found in Bill James' new book, The Politics of Glory: How Baseball's Hall of Fame Really Works (Macmillan; $25). For 452 sizzling pages, the game's premier stats solon and most passionate fan stir-fries the old debate about who does and doesn't deserve to be there. "The Hall of Fame," he writes, "has never really thought through the issue of how to identify the most worthy Hall of Famers." His evidence: comparison of players' records...
...Japanese Premier Resigns...
...policy gap between the three blocs squabbling for power -- Hata's coalition, the conservative "Liberal Democrats" and the Socialists -- was so great that they could not even agree on when to hold more talks. Hata, meanwhile, stays on as caretaker and looks to be the second consecutive lame-duck premier Japan will send to the G-7 economic summit, to be held July 8 in Naples. The P.M.'s fall is considered bad news for the Clinton Administration; Hata had begun thawing relations between the U.S. and Japan...
This initial section of the surviving manuscript, subtitled Search for the Father, achieves a raw, personal poignancy that Camus never allowed himself to show in life. Le Premier Homme also displays Camus's deep, nostalgic affection for the Algeria of his childhood, for the French (the pieds noirs) and other European settlers who went to the North African Mediterranean coast in search of a new world, for what he called in his diary "those luminous years...
Camus's refusal to seek sanctuary in such abstractions marked him as an outsider while he lived and a prophet now, in an age of discredited dogmas. Reviewing Le Premier Homme, Paris' Le Monde asked, "Can we now rediscover Camus without political and historical prejudices, in his quest for truth?" The answer will spread with the translations, and it seems...