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Sunday: Jubilant Seibu players give their manager the traditional bumps after destroying the Kintetsu Buffaloes 8-2. Monday: Seibu (a chain of stores, not a city) celebrates with a one-day sale. Wednesday: Giants and Dragons still neck and neck. Thursday: A heart stopper. As their pitching collapses, the Giants lose to the Yakult Swallows 6-2. One astrologer, noting the position of Mars, sees the Giants victorious in Saturday's pennant-deciding showdown with the Dragons. Saturday: Giants...
...crab was a boat-stopper," captain John Roberts said. "It was early, but things were going our way. We were racing exactly how we wanted at that point...
...frame, and his fastball was no longer overpowering. All that is still true, but in this year of fallen closers -- Rod Beck, Rob Dibble, Bryan Harvey, Duane Ward and John Wetteland have all spent time on the disabled list -- Smith has been the game's best stopper, saving 12 games in 12 tries without allowing a run in 10 2/3 innings through Sunday. He had a save in 12 of his team's first 23 games, a feat no other pitcher has accomplished. Suddenly the one-year, $1.5 million deal that the Orioles gave Smith in January looks like...
...during a period of concern over organized crime, it enables conviction of all members of a "criminal enterprise," not just the gunsels. And its penalties are steep: up to 20 years in jail for each criminal count and triple damages in civil judgments. RICO quickly proved a sterling Mob stopper, as dozens of capos like New York City's John Gotti can testify. But when lawyers in the mid-'80s realized how broadly written it was, it mutated wildly. Prosecutors turned it on white-collar criminals like junk- bond-king Michael Milken. Plaintiffs in normal civil suits (a famous...
...virtue, pop culture follows. Siegfried and Roy, the ur-Vegas magicians (imagine, if you dare, a hybrid of Liberace, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Copperfield and Marlin Perkins) who perform 480 shows a year in their own theater at the Mirage, don't seem satisfied unless every trick is a show-stopper and every moment has the feel of a finale. In front of the new Treasure Island is a Caribbean-cum- Mediterranean faux village fronting a 65-ft.-deep "lagoon" in which a full-scale British man-of-war and pirate vessel every 90 minutes stage a battle with serious fires...