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...long, Americans might even begin to drift away spiritually from the game. The most profound charm of baseball is an illusion, really-the illusion that the game connects America now with an earlier America that we remember (falsely, in so many ways) as democratic and sweet and robust and green and essentially innocent. The strike has slapped some unlikable touches of reality upon the illusion. The charm may be a little slow in returning. -By Lance Morrow...
...news was doubly a surprise because other Justices had been considered for more likely to depart. Five occupants of the bench are over 70 and two, William Brennan, 75, and Thurgood Marshall, 72, are reportedly in less than robust health. President Reagan now has an unexpectedly early opportunity to begin his oft-promised ideological remolding of the court. His main criterion for candidates is clearly known, said White House Spokesman Larry Speaks, " He will not seek only candidates who necessarily agree with him on every position, but rather those who share one key view, the role of the courts...
...never-released photograph of Jimmy Carter and his "killer rabbit" finally surfaced last week. It should lay to rest any doubts as to the former President's bunny tale. Fishing alone in 1979 in a small watership down in Plains, Ga., Jimmy was alarmed to see "a fairly robust-looking rabbit" hissing menacingly, with teeth flashing and nostrils flared, paddling furiously toward his skiff. When the furry creature got to within a hare's breadth of the craft, Carter took oar in hand and began flailing frantically to chase it away-or maybe even to split a hare...
...expand in ways that will take up the slack for the abandoned government functions. The Defense Department is exempt from these cutbacks because it must increase preparedness against the world-wide Soviet threat. Furthermore, the government will cut taxes in an effort to encourage investment in the once-again-robust private sector...
...major factor holding back robust growth is those staggering interest rates. Board members expect the Federal Reserve to keep the cost of money high for some time to come. The board's consensus: interest rates will stay up, although they will ease a little by autumn. This will hold the economy's real growth for the current quarter to 1.1% and to less than 1% during the summer. The gain for the year as a whole is now expected to be 2.9%. In the gentlest terms, that amounts to a pause later in the year. Lester Thurow, M.I.T...