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...21st book a strategically scandalous novel by a first-rate writer in a second-rate literary culture who needs another commercial success like Portnoy's Complaint to justify his advances? The issue is certainly complicated, but the fact remains that Roth has changed publishers as often as Dave Winfield has switched teams--and for the same reasons. Management gets tired of paying for past performance, but there is always a new front office that needs long-ball potential...
What Jobu sees is truly extraordinary: four of the Top 10 batting averages in the American League (Ramirez, Baerga, Lofton and Jim Thome), two certain Hall of Famers (Eddie Murray and Dave Winfield), and a guy so good they just named a candy bar after him--the Albert Belle Bar. If the pitching holds up, the Indians-who had a 6-1/2-game lead on the Kansas City Royals in the A.L. Central as of Friday-should finish first for the first time since...
...make a champion out of the delinquent. Tyson is played with an eerie emotional vacancy by newcomer Michael Jai White. Intriguingly, the actor is not given much dialogue, which serves to emphasize Tyson's position as little more than a pawn of handlers like promoter Don King, whom Paul Winfield plays as a man of charismatic turpitude...
...movie about the former heavyweight champ portraysMike Tysonas an emotionally vacant young man devoid of any inner drive to win. With George C. Scott as trainer Cus D'Amato, Paul Winfield as Don King and newcomer Michael Jai White as Tyson, the movie shows "Iron Mike without an iron will" says TIME reviewer Gina Bellafante. However, it fails to offer any insight into the boxer's psychology. "Fallen heroes always retain a certain mystery, but they needn't be this inscrutable."Previous TIME Daily
...past three years in L.A., for instance, those 14 or younger accounted for just 17 of the 460 homicides committed by kids under 18 -- younger kids are increasingly involved in deadlier crime. "There is far more gratuitous violence and far more anger, more shooting," says Judge Susan R. Winfield, who presides over the Family Division of the Washington, D.C., Superior Court. "Youngsters used to shoot each other in the body. Then in the head. Now they shoot each other in the face...