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...People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.' It's a goddamn shame." - On his inability to make it back into the major league because, as he suspected, most people took it for granted that would make it into the Hall of Fame one day, The New Yorker, Sept...
...songs that told simple stories, often in joyously happy or heartbreakingly sad ways. And all the while Motown was the pride of Detroit and the pride of black America (though Gordy tried, with his usual bluster, to make it the "Sound of Young America," a label he began to stamp on all of the company's vinyl...
...first step toward providing students with cable television in their dorms as part of a pilot program run by an outside vendor. Though the UC overwhelmingly passed a bill yesterday requiring its members to e-mail their House lists about the opportunity, the council declined to formally put its stamp of approval on the project, known as Crimson Cable, because of fears of legal liability. Crimson Cable, founded and headed by Nicholas J. Castine ’10, plans to conduct a trial run that would provide 100 students with 250 television channels over the Internet. Students who sign...
...private company. Even before last year's financial loss was announced, the Postal Service - knowing that bad tidings were on the way - had scrambled to find $2 billion in savings. In 2008 the agency cut 50 million work hours and phased out many of its 23,000 automated stamp vending machines, which have become expensive to repair and update. Clearly, the savings weren't enough. And 2009 doesn't look much better. "We expect the new fiscal year to be another difficult one for the Postal Service and the entire mailing industry," Postmaster General John Potter told the Postal Service...
...Minnesota's State Canvassing Board certified the results of the state's protracted U.S. Senate race on Monday, declaring former comedian and Democratic challenger Al Franken the winner by 225 votes. Franken made an acceptance speech just hours after the board met and the certification put a temporary stamp on the two-month recount. Franken, however, doesn't yet have the election certificate needed to take his seat in Washington, and a lawsuit filed by Coleman threatens to entangle the race in even more months of legal wrangling. (See pictures from the historic Election...