Word: sain
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...last time these two franchises met was way back in 1948, when the Indians of Bob Feller and Lou Boudreau beat the then Boston Braves of "Spahn and Sain, and pray for rain," four games to two. (Since then, the Indians have made one more trip to the Series--they lost to the Giants in '54--while the Braves have gone four times, winning in '57, but losing in '58, '91 and '92.) During the '95 season, Maddux and Belle were so astounding that they took baseball history deep--deeper even than...
...muggy Saturday night shortly after 11. Jimmy is driving around in a stolen 1987 Honda Prelude, a 9-mm TEC-9 under the seat. "I'm thinking, ohhh, man, this sain't for me. I'm just tired of this gang banging, and I'm, like, real scared." A semiliterate high school dropout, Jimmy grapples with the ghetto's version of a mid-life crisis. He drives around for 40 minutes, carefully obeying every traffic signal as he furiously works through his options. Definitely don't want to be stopped by the police, really don't want to fire this...
That solution would please Slovenia and Croatia. There is little disagreement there that these two economically advanced republics could go it alone -- though at a cost. "In the open economy in Europe of the 1990s, the number of people is not important," says Ante Cicin-Sain of the Institute of Economics. "It is just as easy, and much more acceptable politically, for us to take directions from Brussels than from Belgrade...