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...hasten agreement on a new contract and get the game going on time, before any serious money was lost. The events of last week, though, proved the cynics correct. Talks between the club owners and the Major League Players Association remained deadlocked. In an eleventh-hour gesture, Commissioner Fay Vincent offered to order the training camps open if the players' union promised not to strike later in the season. The union response was prompt: no deal. With that, hopes that opening day would take place as scheduled, on April 2, virtually vanished...
Overly aggressive or dangerous panhandlers, however, will not automatically enjoy legal protection. "Judge Sand's ruling doesn't say a beggar can corner people or abuse them," explained Columbia law professor Vincent Blasi. "The First Amendment protects only the right to ask, not the right to harass." In fact, several days after his ruling, Judge Sand modified the decision to allow the MTA to regulate panhandling more selectively by banning solicitations on moving subway cars and near token booths...
Republican City Committee Chair Vincent L. Dixon '75 has been putting out political tentacles about competing for the State Senate seat of Michael LoPresti...
...company may not be much esteemed in heaven, but, from Eve onward, mere mortals have found Satan a singularly seductive fellow -- spookily charming, mordantly funny, even sexy in a sulphur-scented way. Writers have been especially beguiled, from Marlowe and Milton to Shaw and Stephen Vincent Benet. Indeed, while putting God on display as a character is normally a guarantee of literary disaster, it sometimes seems that stories about his arch-opposite just can't miss. Presumably there is a sound theological basis for all this: virtue could hardly be considered virtuous if it were also indisputably fun, while...
...almost two hours, the performers read pieces ranging from humorous short poems by Ogden Nash to serious works like "The Buck in the Snow" by Edna St. Vincent Millay...