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Roger Angell, by contrast, comes from the magazine writer's school of sportswriting: calm, meditative, not deadline driven or space cramped, free to follow the fast-and-slow, squeeze-and-relax rhythms of the game. His new book, Game Time (Harcourt; 398 pages), is a collection of pieces written for the New Yorker. Culled from 40 years and around a million words of baseball writing, they have a certain aged, triple-distilled quality: each one has the internal complexity of a novel. Angell likes to skirt the edges of the diamond: he keeps a lonely big-league scout company...
...nixing of Maxim is Ally's first victory in what may be a long crusade. "We're starting with Wal-Mart," he says. "They're not our only target. We want to try to slow down this slide into the moral abyss that America...
...margins, a debt-free balance sheet and a fleet of popular, critically acclaimed cars and trucks. He is leading the bold expansion by foreign carmakers eager to build more vehicles in the U.S. And he may soon get a chance at an even bigger challenge--as head of the slow-growing French automaker Renault...
...economies would follow, though Bowers says he would avoid Japan. Among his favorites: Hong Kong, South Korea and China--despite the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome. Consider cyclical blue chips like China Telecom, Hyundai Motor, Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor. These moves may not feel right with the economy slow and the dollar weak. For now, just think of them as accident insurance...
...policy, he said, is intended to take the pressure to apply early off of students and encourage them to “slow down and to take senior year to decide which school they want...