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...past two World Series, they didn't want to be baseball's version of the N.F.L.'s Buffalo Bills, thrice defeated by stronger squads in the Super Bowl. The Braves have an eerier heritage: they are losing to teams deemed weaker. And they have the stats to prove it. The Braves outscored the Phils 33 to 23; their hitters had a much higher batting average (.274 to .227), their pitchers a much lower earned-run average (3.15 to 4.75). The Phils were out- everythinged, but they didn't care, because the Braves were out-won. Or worn out. They...
Pearl Jam is now on probation, forced to prove that success hasn't spoiled it. The group and its record label have responded by promoting the new album very little and even holding off on making rock videos for the time being. Some critics of the band claim its members have handled their fame poorly. "I've heard Eddie Vedder complain about MTV, as if he had been bound and gagged to make the video for Jeremy and forced to sign a record contract with a major label," gripes Alternative Nation's veejay, who goes by the name of Kennedy...
...Action Party has shown considerable strength in Chihuahua, the country's largest state, where elections will be held early next month. Many Mexicans suspect that the P.R.I. may lose the gubernatorial race--or win only by tampering with the results. In the present climate of unease, either outcome could prove incendiary. Small wonder that some P.R.I. officials are now reciting a gloomy slogan: ''We may win Chihuahua but still lose the country...
...should be put on trial for crimes against humanity. At the other are the truly doubtful - like Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who helped block a Live Earth concert from being held on the Capitol's grounds last year - who are convinced that the environmental cost of climate change will prove less disastrous than the expense of curbing it. In between there's plenty of room for rational disagreement...
...that seems poised to go international. The protesters, devotees of a fierce "protector deity" called Dorje Shugden, claim that the spiritual leader of Tibet has curtailed their civil rights as part of a religious vendetta. For now, the allegations of the Shugdenpas (as they are known) are hard to prove or disprove. But even a brief investigation provides a vivid look into what experts call "the shadow side" of Tibetan Buddhism, contrasting the tolerance and rationalism that the Dalai Lama represents globally and the theological hardball over mystical principles that he seems to play on his home turf...