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...Rudenstine received more than $750,000 in the year following his resignation. Of that amount, he earned a base salary of $200,000 as president emeritus. The remaining $533,018—filed as an “expense account and other allowances”—subsidized moving expenses, loan payments and forgiveness, a retirement payment and “gifts in honor of service...
...quoted Frost fluently from behind his mirror shades, is the book's hilarious, hyperverbal hero. He once baffled a reporter with this spitball of a question: "If my team loses a big one, and I strike out with the winning runs on base, are you aware that 1 billion Chinese don't care...
...write around it; he leaves the unutterable unuttered. The lure of the game, what draws the Nobelists and the laureates, may be the elusive but ever present possibility of perfection: the no-hitter, the flawless diamond of a double play, even the ruler-straightness of a well-kept base path. But perfection brooks no summing up, and neither baseball nor its fans need a committee of scribes to stuff it full of meaning. Like Angell, the best baseball writers let the game speak for itself. In "For Openers," an essay on the occasion of Opening Day 1982, Angell meets...
...They controlled the middle of the race,” O’Leary said. “They have a very strong base cadence, base rhythm. It was very effective. You can be fast off the line, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to win the race. If you have a really strong body of the race, you stand a good chance to win it. And that’s what we’ve been focusing on the last half of the season—building our base speed. The second...
...today, his own Fatah movement has a militant armed wing of its own, which has vowed to stand alongside the Islamists in defying disarmament. Add to that the fact of ongoing Israeli security operations stoking popular outrage among Palestinians, and the fact that Abbas has no substantive political support base of his own, and the task before him appears Herculean. Then there's a certain Mr. Arafat, whom Washington is trying to wish away, but who remains more powerful than Mr. Abbas - and has considerable incentive to ensure that the prime minister fails, because the Israelis and Americans have made...