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Players also charge that even without injuries, the pounding their bodies take on turf shortens their careers. Recently, baseball player Barry Larkin of the Cincinnati Reds demanded a trade to a grass-field team to try to extend his career. According to Gaines, many free agents have refused to sign with teams whose home field is carpeted. The Green Bay Packers requested that a preseason game against the New Orleans Saints be played on grass, so the Superdome was covered with a temporary grass pitch...
...invaders have, as David O. Russell, who wrote and directed Three Kings, says, "fallen down the rabbit hole" into one of modernism's most disturbing places, where calculated brutality and mindless consumerism exist side by uneasy side, a place where a life may not be judged a fair trade for a Rolex. They are also, as Russell later recalls, part of a sequence "we were not going to finish before lunch." A producer worried about the budget suggested he "broom out" some of the details and move on. But the film's star, George Clooney, stood fast. It was scenes...
...Louisiana [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 30] has prompted me to write. I work with Johannesburg's street children. I talk to them about their lives and how rap music relates to the young people on the streets. I do not believe that rappers' recordings "celebrate gunfights, misogyny and the crack trade," as Gwynne wrote. They are merely drawing our attention to ghetto life and the ugly truth of it. In the ghetto you have to be tough or die. I know from being with these people that they are just as affectionate and frightened as everybody else. SAFFRON BAGGALLAY Johannesburg...
There are times when the Chinese like surprises. During fireworks, for example. But not during trade negotiations. Beijing already had one "gotcha" last spring when PRESIDENT CLINTON balked at admitting the nation to the World Trade Organization. Entry to the organization is a huge issue for the Chinese, who hope it would boost their economy and end the fiery annual fight over most-favored-nation status. China's leaders may be in for another surprise. This week Chinese negotiators are due in Washington to reopen WTO talks. A top Chinese diplomat told TIME that Beijing believes accession has been pretty...
...transaction," says Gomez Advisors' Dan Burke. "There's no need to worry about shipping, returns or any of the stuff that makes regular e-commerce so challenging." Yet it will be December before Merrill Lynch, the company that brought "Wall Street to Main Street," offers its first $29.95 online trade. That will be more than three years after both a tiny upstart called ETrade and the discount brokerage Charles Schwab began allowing investors to trade stock on the Net. "We weren't in any rush because our clients weren't clamoring for it," says Susan Thomson, a Merrill spokeswoman...