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...tone-deaf suit or a chivalrous protector of the integrity of America's favorite pastime? Bowie Kuhn, commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1984, tangled aggressively with high-profile players like Hank Aaron and Jim Bouton and owners like George Steinbrenner, and chafed in 1969 when Curt Flood unsuccessfully sued the league to become a free agent. (In 1977 arbitrators ruled in favor of free agency.) But Kuhn launched the playoffs, ruled that female reporters should have equal access to the locker room, inked a deal with NBC to air night games of the World Series...
...else to vote against Sarkozy. Many suburban residents still seethe at what they consider racially loaded language Sarkozy used during high-profile visits to troubled housing projects in his role as Interior Minister. They view that as part of Sarkozy's presidential campaign to project himself as the sole protector of the law-abiding French nation against the crime-addled savages of the suburbs. "No one has done more to legitimize Le Pen than Sarkozy - the most hated man in the banlieues," says Farid Smahi, a member of the National Front's political bureau and an organizer of its vote...
...differences between the two parties go much deeper than the personal feuds of their leaders. The Awami League came of age during the liberation struggle in the early 1970s when Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan. The party paints itself as the protector of those early secular, nationalist ideals, and a bulwark against radical Islam. The BNP, which is closer to Pakistan and embraces political Islam, argues that it is more religious and tougher on crime. During its recent stint in power the BNP counted on the support of fundamentalist Islamic parties such as Jamaat-e-Islami, sparking Western concerns that...
...During this particular visit the document hunters found none, but they expect other forays will turn up important contraband. The investigators are part of Operation Historic Protector, which the Archive's Inspector General's Office launched in November to combat what many fear is a growing threat to the federal government's historical repository, as well as to state archives and university libraries: the pilfering of old letters, documents, maps, photographs, books and other historical artifacts...
...Operation Historic Protector is a small initiative at the moment. Brachfeld has only two of his 16-member staff assigned to it, and so far the Office of Management and Budget has refused his request for funding increases to beef up the team. But he says he hopes to build up his force along with a network of outside artifacts experts around the country who will tip off his agents "every time they find something suspicious. And we swoop down...