Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tutors said Vincent W. Li '87, assistant senior tutor to the master, actively encouraged Dunster House Master Karel F. Liem to hire William W. Li '84, Vincent Li's brother, Fiona Murray and Owen Young, a friend of Vincent Li's since junior high school...
...question of governance and power relations rather than the law of supply and demand run amuck. The vacant office of the commissioner of baseball symbolizes the void at the center of the game; the post has remained unfilled since a majority of owners forced the resignation of Fay Vincent last September. Vincent's so-called sins included his prickly independence and his determination to use his powers to act "in the best interests of baseball" and his aborted attempt to limit the freedom of TV superstations, which control the lucrative Chicago Cub and Atlanta Brave franchises...
...search committee in progress. But it's hard to say when." A shrewd guess is not until there is a new baseball labor agreement. The owners fear that a new commissioner -- no matter how limited his formal mandate -- would try to avert a spring-training lockout in 1994 as Vincent did in 1980. "The owners have decided that they get along better without a commissioner," theorizes the unrepentant Vincent. "Any commissioner with any strength is going to cause trouble for them." Fans view a charismatic commissioner, like the late Bart Giamatti, as their tribune, the only person in the game...
...MARGE SCHOTT -- IS that a fair baseball trade? The bigots' Mrs. Malaprop begins her year's suspension from the Cincinnati Reds just as Steinbrenner, the sport's most belligerent, beguiling owner, returns to the New York Yankees, 2 1/2 years after he was ousted as managing partner by Fay Vincent, then the commissioner. With Schott you got Schottzie 2, her drooling St. Bernard. But George needs no dog. He can growl at reporters, fetch overpriced free agents and bite the occasional manager. He can do everything but heel...
...somewhat surprised [by Kennedy's decision not to run]," said Vincent L. Dixon '75, former chair of the Cambridge Republican Party...