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...SLAP A SLAM DUNK...
...this contract is a slap in the face to the entire economic system of the game. The Seattle Mariners are by no means a poor team. They have a brand new, well-attended facility in Safeco Field, and they offered Rodriguez somewhere around $150 million to stay put. The fact is that GM Pat Gillick has done everything right over the past couple of years to bring his club to the precipice of contention...
After the two teams traded first-period goals, Big Green junior forward Gary Hunter fired a slap shot through traffic past Huskie goaltender Mike Gilhooly at the 17:50 mark in the second to give Dartmouth a short-lived lead...
...Despite Monday's slap-down of Judge Guzman, Pinochet's legal road ahead remains blighted. To be sure, he's unlikely to elicit much sympathy from the same Chilean Supreme Court that last August stripped the general of the immunity from prosecution he'd authored for himself as a precondition for stepping down in 1990. Of course it's quite possible that the high court will uphold Monday's technical ruling, but its August decision presumably leaves the field open to Pinochet's accusers to simply keep trying. And that would leave the general's attorneys to fall back...
...hands quite full, the Justices will undoubtedly cast worried glances over their shoulders as they consider the Gore appeal. As everyone is well aware, the country's highest court has fixed a keen eye on the Florida seven: Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a bit of a wrist-slap to its Florida colleagues, "vacating" their decision to extend a certification deadline, sending the opinion back for "clarification." And so the Florida judges are also accepting supplementary briefs from both the Bush and Gore camps arguing whether (and under what legal standards) the court should reissue its previous opinion...