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Baseball's premier event in 1997 will head to South Florida, a region which quickly and quietly slips from summer into spring at some point between November and February. But the folks in the Miami area are far from baseball novices, and they will be rockin' on Saturday to celebrate the accomplishments of a team that has shocked the Major Leagues...
Consider the veteran players on the squad. Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourrette's syndrome, is one of baseball's premier hitters and works with many children around the nation who are also afflicted with Tourrette's. Darren Daulton, a 13-year veteran of the Philadelphia Phillies, was acquired in mid-season to add some punch from the left side of the plate to a lineup lacking in left-handed hitters. Both of these players now have the opportunity to win their first championship...
Taking on the role as underdog for the first time this season, it will meet not one, but two of the premier women's soccer programs in the nation-No. 11 George Mason (6-1-3) and No. 14 Maryland...
Another potential pain for Mosenergo shareholders was narrowly avoided last spring. Boris Nemtsov, Russia's reformist First Deputy Premier, personally intervened to block a planned limitation of shareholders' voting rights as well as a new stock issue that would have substantially diluted the holdings of foreign investors. Infringement of the rights of minority shareholders has been a recurrent problem in Russia, and one that President Boris Yeltsin's free market-oriented government continues to battle...
Some National Security Council aides are grumbling that they'd like to pull the plug on the twice-a-year meetings AL GORE has with Russian Premier VIKTOR CHERNOMYRDIN. The sessions, they say, have lately produced few results. Chernomyrdin has dropped in the Kremlin pecking order and can no longer deliver much. But the Veep, who's in Russia this week for his ninth Gore-Chernomyrdin commission meeting, is still high on the confabs. In past get-togethers Gore has hammered out agreements on unglamorous issues other politicians avoid, like environmental cleanup and health-care exchanges. This week's meeting...