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...infield is anchored by last year's leading hitter, junior second baseman Jim Mrowka, who hit .305 while also leading the team in fielding with 86 assists. The other half of the Crimson's double-play tandem will most likely be Pat Hegarty, a slick-fielding shortstop who impressed in limited action last year...
Since the invention of supply-side economics, most of the slick idea packagers in American life have been conservatives who view taxes with the horror that Carry Nation once reserved for saloons. Harvard political economist Robert Reich is the rare exception, a glib and unrepentant liberal who has become -- almost by default -- the John Kenneth Galbraith of the baby- boom generation. The publication of Reich's new economic synthesis, The Work of Nations, comes in the midst of a Republican recession with record budget and troubling trade deficits. But rather than indulging in hand wringing and partisan I-told...
Three solid weeks of rehearsal under the tutelage of a professional director produced an imaginative, slick and well-oiled show. The pit orchestra, too, was smoothly integrated into the production. The result was a pretty solid cast and pretty good script leveraged into a first-rate production...
Free-lancing reporters have scored many other coups. Some of the first shots of the mammoth Iraqi-instigated oil slick came from a British ITN crew fully two days before pool footage arrived. A group of nonpool journalists driving near the Iraq-Saudi border last week got a scoop when four hungry Iraqi army deserters approached them and surrendered. Complaints about the pool reports have been growing. "Why didn't we get the oil spill? Why wasn't a pool on the ((battleship)) Missouri when it fired its guns?" asks Thomas Giusto of ABC, who is coordinating pool coverage...
...Last week the op-ed page of the New York Times ran a David Levine drawing titled The Descent of Man. Running from left to right were representations of Clark Gable, a gorilla, a chimpanzee, a cobra and, finally, a diminutive, flyspeck Saddam standing waist-deep in an oil slick...