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...Factory shows up, without Rickey Henderson for the first time in years. Forsaking children, spouses and all significant others, twelve contentious clans have gathered this daylight-savings Sunday in the sporting confines of O'Reilly's Pub in New York City for the most sacred event of their baseball calendar: not opening day or the seventh game of the World Series but draft day for the American Dreams...
...selection of Shapiro, an search for a replacement for William G. Bowen, who will leave Princeton by the end of the calendar year to head up the Mellon Foundation...
Flaherty, who said he did not have "the slightest idea" why this engagement was on his calendar, had a case of the pre-show jitters. "Does one ever look forward to making a fool of oneself?" he asked...
...Reagan Administration, April has been the kindest month on the Iranscam calendar. A long, brutal winter of damaging leaks and accusations culminated in the release of the Tower commission report, the cathartic firing of Chief of Staff Donald Regan and his replacement by Howard Baker, followed by the President's address and press conference on the scandal in March. The advent of spring has provided a welcome time-out for Reagan and his new advisers...
...nurseries went along. Easter proved a vexing starting gun for the nurserymen though -- people like Montgomery -- and it is easy to see why: one year Easter appears in March; another, it slips across the border into April. How, then, do you kick off a seasonal trade when the calendar plays so freely with ribbon-cutting day? You coax the public perception of spring forward, "force" it, as you would a daffodil...