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...course, the stadium seemed almost fully vacant by 3 p.m., (No chance of me leaving, hmmph.) But when the rains let up, the grounds crew danced, and baseball would be played. Alas, not on my beloved screen--into the 11th it went, but major league regulations forced it off as our own game-start neared...
...obscure Zairean border post, transforming the stretch of road between the customs gates and the town of Bukavu into a slow-moving river of humanity. At night, refugees occupy virtually every open spot along the highway, lighting their cooking fires in front of houses, sleeping on lawns and in vacant lots. Beyond the town, 320,000 more refugees have set up home in filthy, sprawling & camps. The human wave, augmented each day by new arrivals, is rapidly overwhelming the resources of a town that cannot even boast the rudimentary air and road links that allowed international aid groups...
...owners ousted Fay Vincent as baseball commissioner in September 1992, they had long been prepping for a beanball war with the players. Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig -- who has turned the title "interim commissioner" into a seemingly lifetime appointment -- makes no secret of keeping the commissioner's job vacant to prevent an outsider from trying to impose labor peace. As their negotiator, the owners selected former New York City transit czar and failed mayoral candidate Richard Ravitch (he received 2% of the vote in the 1989 Democratic primary). The self-confident Ravitch believed he could pull off a near impossible...
...soon-to-be-vacant Union was the logicalchoice for a new center for the humanities...
Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, which today claims about a quarter of Harvard undergraduates as members, started out in 1944 with a few students and a vacant space in a Mass Ave. movie theater...