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...week after North Korea announced on May 14 that it was going ahead with removing the fuel rods, the IAEA sent in a three-man inspection team. Last Thursday the observers concluded that if the process continued without inspection of the samples, it would result in "irreparable loss of the agency's ability to verify" that the plutonium-laden fuel was not being ! diverted for weapons use. But by Friday IAEA officials informed Washington that none of the disputed fuel has so far been diverted -- and on Saturday, Pyongyang invited nuclear inspectors to discuss plans for additional monitoring...
...everything went awry, however, at the 450-meter mark. At that point, Chris McGarry made what turned out to be a fatal mistake. The senior three-man "caught a crab," allowing his oar to bounce awkwardly into the water...
Year by year, baseball's sunlit magic withers (good field, no dreams), done in by domes, fake-o-turf, salary stats and the fact that TV's three-man, pitcher-batter-catcher game misses most of the point. Tube ball ignores what beguiles the wide-angled human eye at a real ball park: the splendid grass and the huge, contained space; the centerfielder's arrogant slouch as he taunts the batter by playing in too far; the way the shortstop leans forward when he knows the next guy is dangerous; the cocky way (unseen by the camera, because TV slicksters...
...tell you one thing that I've told all the guys," Tomassoni said. "I won't go to a three-man rotation. We don't play enough games to justify that...
Perot was, and became again, a tougher problem. The Governor rejected any idea of adopting a more traditionally liberal program in hopes of holding enough of the Democrats' core constituency -- perhaps 35% of the vote -- to eke out victory in a three-man race. Clinton insisted on sticking with his broadly based centrist program and was quickly -- though temporarily -- rewarded. Not only did Perot quit the race, as some in the Clinton camp had rather wistfully predicted; he did it on July 16, only hours before Clinton delivered his acceptance speech to the Democratic Convention. For good measure, the mercurial...