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...made no secret of its displeasure with the physical risks Jackson took moonlighting as a backfield star. Says Royals owner Ewing Kauffman: "It definitely was not best in the long run for Bo to play football. It destroyed potentially the best talent ever to put on a baseball uniform." Several major-league managers said they would never take a two- sport athlete, even one of Jackson's caliber, because of the risks of injury. New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner last week loudly announced that he wanted Jackson on his squad, but Steinbrenner is no longer allowed to speak...
...question has dimensions that are both social and personal. In Freudian terms, the law is supposed to perform the function of the superego, policing the wild and violent id. The Beirut principle goes to work when the id takes over from the superego and puts on a blue uniform, when authority goes wild...
...allies continue to hope that one of his officers will depose him. Many Kurdish leaders say they would be happy to work with a military junta. According to Zebari, his group has even written to army commanders pledging support for a military coup. Yet a new man in a uniform in Baghdad might not be any better for the Kurds than the old one. "The military establishment in Iraq has a very bad history," says Sami Abdul Rahman, leader of the Kurdistan Popular Democratic Party. "They are chauvinistic and dictatorial...
...Tarkanian's approach to the NCAA's regulations. The coach's 1986 recruitment of New York City prep star Lloyd Daniels, who attended four high schools but never managed to graduate, is an example of his pursuit of a questionable player. (In the end, Daniels never wore a UNLV uniform.) Tarkanian points to the likes of Johnson and current guard Greg Anthony as signs that his system works...
Neil Redlener, professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, argues that police are more prone to use force these days because they are facing a more lethal environment. "There is better firepower and increased violence in the streets," he says. "A police uniform these days is as much a target as protection...