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Brush was the most colorful figure on the 1997 Harvard baseball team, a squad with more hues than a jumbo box of Crayolas. He wore thick glasses and robust muttonchop sideburns and strolled around the right-field bullpen with his uniform shirt untucked and his pitching hand down his pants...
...feeling was that you didn't want to dribble it out because each piece wouldn't look as robust," Zeckhauser says. "Up until the last meeting there was disagreement. We didn't want to put things out half-baked...
...rare display of bipartisanship, Clinton and DeLay are stumping furiously for the same cause. Last week the President was host to a pro-China White House rally that featured robust speeches by Henry Kissinger, architect of the cold war opening to China; former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and Vice President Gore, as well as appearances by a score of statesmen and politicians, including Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. The event underscored the high political stakes for Clinton, who hopes that passage of the bill will serve as the cornerstone for a more stable relationship with China--and a more...
...stock market is sending the message that economic troubles lurk. It hardly seems possible that prosperous times will soon fade. Profits are up, and record numbers of Americans are at work. Yet the paradox of a market economy is that stock investors get scorched near the end of a robust expansion, while good times still roar. The reverse is true at the trough of a recession, when times are toughest...
...that define who wins and loses in professional sport. The Oakland franchise lies on the smaller end of baseball's salary scale. With an estimated 2000 payroll of $32 million, the A's rank 25th on the list of Major League Baseball's highest spenders. When compared with the robust $93 million George Steinbrenner and the Yankees will attempt to buy another World Series championship with this year, one might expect little to come of the management's efforts...