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...older folks, Opening Day is another chance to criticize current players and remember the true greats of yesteryear. For some, the feats of Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire will never really compare with those of Ted Williams, Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax. In this era of monster hitters and astronomical contracts, they say, everything is distorted, and baseball will never be the same...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Play Ball | 4/1/2001 | See Source »

...AIDS-drugs issue was tailor-made for Castro, a strongman who harbors both an epic hostility to capitalism and a developed pharmaceutical industry. The Cuban leader once revered among Third World revolutionaries has become a rather lonely ideologue in the post-Cold War years, as the Marxists of yesteryear made their peace with globalizing capitalism faster than you could say International Monetary Fund. But the AIDS crisis has spawned a battle in which even the most resolutely capitalist governments of the poverty-stricken developing world see themselves ranged against the patents and profits of giant pharmaceutical corporations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS Drug Battle Offers Castro an Opportunity | 3/29/2001 | See Source »

...about us at the College anymore. But assuming that Harvard not only retains but develops its diversity, attracts a few more minorities and entices more than just a handful of international students, hopefully that will become the obvious status quo. And, thank God, the robust Old Boys' networking of yesteryear will resurrect itself--in p.c. form, of course...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: Uncork the Sherry, Please | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

...other day on Fox Television, from Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the only ex-Klansman who plays the fiddle and reads Plutarch both, it seemed a period piece brought down from the attic, to the surprise and confusion of those gathered in the parlor - an item of yesteryear's genteel insincerity with the mildew of viciousness still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Word Is Deed | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...Palestinian and Arab leaders, he recognized Israel's right to existence and right to security. During the latter half of his career, he has been a staunch advocate of compromise and diplomacy. But the Western world does not think of him in this way: It remembers the Arafat of yesteryear--the one who could be linked to terrorist attacks in the 1970s and the one who associated with Saddam Hussein during the Gulf...

Author: By Nader R. Hasan, | Title: Palestinians Need a New Leader | 2/21/2001 | See Source »

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