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Amid the hoopla surrounding Mark McGwire's new major league home run record, the sages of the national pastime are unanimous on one thing. McGwire, they say, has saved baseball. Writing in Sports Illustrated, Tom Verducci declared that McGwire "has rekindled the country's interest in baseball." Peter Gammons, the normally reserved analyst for ESPN and The Boston Globe, wrote yesterday that "in this season...baseball regained one generation and gained another that some felt never would turn its MTV/Nintendo eyes...
...more expensive and time-consuming to debug. Globalstar is betting on a network of satellites that will act as simple repeaters with all call-setup and processing accomplished in its 60 ground stations. "If you look at the two companies, they're really taking quite different strategies," says Tom Watts, a satellite analyst for Merrill Lynch. "Iridium is taking a global approach. Globalstar is focusing on a few key countries." The total cost to build and launch Globalstar's system? A mere $2.6 billion, half of Iridium's cost. The consortium's Qualcomm-manufactured handsets are slated to cost less...
...just that kind of chronic weaseling that led the two top Democrats in Congress to open the week with a primal scream. Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle got together last Monday morning to warn the White House in the most public way possible that unless they reeled in the lawyers and stopped all this "legally accurate" nonsense, the road to impeachment would be short and slick. "Dick and Tom went public," said a colleague, "because the private counseling wasn't working...
TROY GARITY's name probably doesn't ring a bell. That was the intent of his parents--Jane Fonda and current California state senator TOM HAYDEN--when they gave it to him. As a fame shield, it didn't work too well. On one of his first days at school, he says, a kid came up to him and said, "Guess what? Jane Fonda's son is here!" Garity's anonymity will be further shattered when he appears as his dad in the film Abbie!, based on the life of Abbie Hoffman. Has his dad sucked...