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...alone were projected to bring in $180 million.) The owners had just launched their experimental Baseball Network on ABC and NBC with the mid-July All-Star Game. Early TV ratings were higher than expected. To hype fan interest, the owners had offended baseball purists by adding a second tier of postseason play-offs complete with football-like wild-card teams beginning this year. (The gimmick may have a fatal flaw: the Texas Rangers would currently qualify for the play- offs even though 10 other teams in the American League have better records.) The players, armed with a strike fund...
Very few do. Said Arnold Kanter, a Bush Administration Under Secretary of State who conducted previous talks with Pyongyang: "What we don't know about North Korea is so vast that it makes the Kremlin of the 1950s look like an open book." The communist northern tier of a peninsula once known as the Hermit Kingdom has lived up to that name with a vengeance, enveloping its 22 million people in a bell jar of propaganda, thought control and mythology glorifying the Kims, often in public pageants that would dwarf a Cecil B. DeMille production. What factions may exist...
Mormons believe in a form of spiritual pre-existence -- though not in reincarnation. They have a complex system of the afterlife as well -- there is a three-tier realm of glory with the highest echelon reserved for believers, the next for well-meaning nonbelievers, the last for the devil and his angels. Adherents worried about the fate of their nonbeliever ancestors can have deceased relatives baptized vicariously. Thus Mormons zealously compile genealogies so all ancestors can eventually be baptized. Meanwhile, males must become lay "priests" and serve as missionaries (currently numbering more than...
...past few seasons, women's ice hockey team has gone into a season with one major goal: to break into the top tier of college teams in the country...
...Potter, Harvard swept through the first two rounds of the upper-tier, defeating Williams 8-1 and Princeton 7-2. In the finals against Western Ontario, the Crimson eeked out a 5-4 win for the coveted...