Word: vincents
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Even before the 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...
...last piece on the disc is the widelyknown "Tahiti Trot," based on the popular Vincent Youman tune "Tea for Two." As the story goes, Shostakvich orchestrated the theme in 40 minutes after a challenge by a friend. Chintz turns into schmaltz at this point; the listener is treated to a seemingly endless (actually only three-minute-33-second) passing of the mindless theme from section to section. The best advice here is to listen for the melding of one texture into the next. Shostakovich manages to keep within the same balance of bass and treble parts, though he sometimes bursts...
...catch that little-noted stunner in the midst of last week's Whitewater drone? If you were glued to the congressional hearings, to the repudiated diaries, sworn contradictions and "I don't recalls," you may have missed it. A year after the suicide of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, the Administration admitted that its previous accounts about the search of Foster's office following his death were, as the Nixonites used to say, inoperative. Even more amazing, the person at the center of this particular storm isn't the President; it's his wife...
...other side of Capitol Hill, FBI and U.S. park-police investigators affirmed before the Senate Banking Committee that the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster was a suicide unrelated to Whitewater...
Fiske has asked that the probers not look into the removal of papers from the office of White House counsel Vincent Foster after his suicide in July 1993 because the special counsel is still investigating that. Gonzalez has ruled out any questions in his House panel about any aspects of Foster's death. Leach once asserted that a midsummer probe could look into only 5% of all the questions concerning Whitewater; last week he reduced that estimate...