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Baseball justice was handed out yesterday, Harvard-style, when a mock trial conducted by ESPN in the halls of Harvard Law School concluded that checkered legend Pete Rose should be admitted into the Baseball Hall of Fame...
Dershowitz made a pointedly rational case that Rose—who holds the all-time record for career hits, singles, at-bats and games played—should remain barred from the Hall as a result of alleged bets placed on the Cincinnati Reds while Rose was that team’s manager. Cochran, by contrast, prevailed after appealing largely to emotions in his defense of the three-time World Series champion’s right to enter the ballot for the Hall of Fame despite an agreement signed in 1990 permanently banning him from taking part in Major League...
...jury delivered an 8-4 verdict declaring that Rose should join the Hall, though all but one of the jurors said they thought Rose had, in fact, gambled on baseball...
...trend is continuing. According to NPD, in 2002 sales of children's apparel rose 6%. During the same period, sales of apparel in general fell 1.7%. The teen market, a fickle but vastly rewarding category for retailers who can crack it, was flat. And kids' apparel--for newborns through about age 10--grew even as the birthrate slightly but steadily declined...
...DIED. ANDREW HEISKELL, 87, former chairman of Time Inc. and philanthropist; in Darien, Connecticut. Erudite, despite never having graduated from college, Heiskell began as a pictorial editor for Life and rose to become publisher of the magazine. As chairman of Time Inc. he oversaw the closing of Life and the creation of People magazine. After retiring in 1980, Heiskell raised hundreds of millions of dollars for libraries as chairman of the New York Public Library's trustees, and promoted urban renewal in blighted areas of New York City as head of the Enterprise Foundation's advisory board...