Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fans (columnist George Will is a particularly lachrymose example) wailing about how their beloved North Side team has not been in the World Series since -- horrors! -- 1945 or actually won one since -- worse horrors! -- 1908. As if to take pity on the star-crossed Cubs, Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent arranged for the club to play an easier schedule starting in 1993, a move prompted by the fact that the National League will grow from 12 to 14 teams next year. Sure, long-overdue geographic reform played a role in the four-club trade: the Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals...
...they celebrating at ivy-clad Wrigley Field in Chicago? Think again, for this is 1992, when the courts play a bigger role in baseball than they do in tennis. The Cubs are suing Vincent, contending that he overstepped his powers to act in "the best interests of baseball" by ordering the team to switch divisions against its wishes. The real motivation of the Chicago Tribune Co., which owns the Cubs, is (surprise!) money: WGN, the Tribune-owned superstation that shows the Cubs games, is worried that more night games on the West Coast will mean lower TV ratings. True...
...controlling the agenda. Instead, a group of Justices -- Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter and Anthony Kennedy -- combined to demonstrate the existence of a new centrist core. "These cases may indicate the emergence of a stronger, more open-minded group in the middle" than might have been expected, said Vincent Blasi, a liberal law professor at Columbia. "It's easy to take potshots from the ideological extreme, but when your judgments actually determine the future of the Constitution, it tends to make you more responsible...
...should be happy to give 10 years of my life," said Vincent van Gogh to a friend as they were gazing at Rembrandt's Jewish Bride in Amsterdam in 1885, "if I could go on sitting here in front of this painting for a fortnight, with only a crust of dry bread for food." This (more or less) describes the fate of Rembrandt's own apprentices. The Jewish Bride (circa 1665) is Rembrandt through and through; but many Rembrandts are not, for the simple reason that (contrary to romantic legends of his poverty and his rejection by the stuffy bourgeoisie...
Whoever wins the Democratic contest will face either Vincent Manganello or Mark Pascucci, the Republican candidates for the spot, at the general election on November...