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...even with such excesses, current ideas for reform go too far. The Bush administration, charging that American society has become too litigious (this in spit of a downward swing in litigation since 1985), has called for a drastic overhaul of the civil justice system...
With one mighty swing, Dave Winfield exorcized his demons and wrought revenge upon his foremost tormentor, slugging an 11th-inning, two-run double Saturday night to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to their first World Series title...
Other pedestrians and parents interviewed in the park yesterday had different opinions, however. "I think [bicyclists] are fairly polite," said Cynthia R. Maltby, pushing her young daughter on a swing in the playground...
Meanwhile, Bush saw his approval ratings dip to new lows. Swing voters assembled in G.O.P. focus groups complained that Bush's happy talk about the economy made him seem out of touch. Some also contrasted Bush's energetic conduct of foreign policy with his fecklessness at home...
...CADILLACS NEVER DIE," OBSERVES the great trumpet player and immortal bopcat at the close of Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. "The finance company just fade 'em away." DIZZY GILLESPIE must never have had a brush with the collection agency: there is no fading, only gleam on Dizzy's Diamonds (Verve), a 3-CD collection spanning 1950 to 1964. Grouped into three broad grooves -- Big Band, small group and Afro-Cuban -- these 40 wondrous cuts show Dizzy setting the pace for some fast company, including Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. The Big Band material blasts, the small-group sides jump...