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...many of you would consider Toronto one of the fat-cat organizations in baseball? Volonnino and Sherman probably wouldn't, based on the fact that they choose not to rank the Jays among the group of what Volonnino deems "the five-to-eight teams that can realistically compete." And yet, despite this dubious omission, Toronto boasted the highest paid player ever, albeit for a short amount of time. Delgado's signing was, moreover, just three years after the Blue Jays went out and bagged Roger Clemens off the free agent market and away from the Boston Red Sox--a club...
...Clinton's apologists have sounded the perverse lament that he might have been a great president if only his times - the 1990s - had not been so prosperous and peaceful. There was not enough challenge around (no Great Depression, no world war) to elevate Clinton to the top rank of presidents with FDR or Lincoln. When times are fat and everyone in the television ads from cabbie to widow seems engaged in wireless trading, building a portfolio, then the followers of the land may grow frisky and cavalier about their leaders. They indulge the conceit that Bill Gates or Alan Greenspan...
...Rank of David Herbert Donald's biography Lincoln on Amazon.com's sales index on December...
...Rank at 10 p.m. E.T. after Bill Clinton recommended it to George W. Bush in an interview on 60 Minutes...
...street. A Cabinet officer may become a columnist, a commentator, a talking head. Even Henry Kissinger - in his day the greatest Cabinet-rank manipulator of columnists - now impersonates one from time to time. But it doesn't work in the other direction. Right brain, left brain, different purposes. Pat Buchanan has exhausted himself going back and forth across the line. There's something almost unsanitary in trying to turn a columnist into a public official or politician...