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...Today's players are influenced, in part, by sums of money that have grown wildly out of proportion - money in such quantities that it cannot do other than create an aura of invincibility. While Ruth was the first pro athlete to make more than the President, the NBA's minimum salary is now greater than the sum the U.S. pays its commander in chief. At the same time, sports teams and leagues have become larger and wealthier - and, perhaps, unwilling to rein in the stars who are creating that wealth. Maybe the suspension handed out to Rocker - considered tough...
...however, both Gore and Coelho decided that Eskew was a risk worth taking because he was the only person who could be what Gore needed--a friend and an equal, someone with enough faith in Gore to let him be himself. Of course, the most talented consultants cannot win elections by themselves. But, says a senior Gore adviser, "one thing that happens in these campaigns is that candidates either find themselves or lose themselves, and he's found himself." Sometimes it takes a friend to help that happen...
Under cover of night, a white bus marked SHERIFF PRISONER TRANSPORT pulls into a sprawling concrete compound with a cargo of new fish--convict slang for first-timers. The passengers are segregated by iron grilles into minimum-, medium- and maximum-security seating. They cannot see the shadowy outline of the snow-capped Wasatch mountains because the only windows on the bus are narrow and situated high above their heads. The bus lurches to a stop, and an officer cheerily calls out, "Welcome to jail. Does anyone want to be handcuffed...
...month after Murder in Greenwich came out, Connecticut impaneled Judge George Thim as its one-man grand jury with the power to compel testimony on the Moxley case. Although prosecutors cannot comment on the decision, it may have been influenced not only by the Sutton leaks but also by another unusual break. After seeing an episode about the case on TV's Unsolved Mysteries, several alumni of the Elan School called to say that between 1978 and 1980 Skakel admitted involvement in Moxley's killing. Three of them were among the 40 witnesses Thim called. Their testimony presumably buttressed...
...ploy. It's an idea so hideous that Gore cannot possibly be sincere in proposing it. Did you see Wednesday night's event in New Hampshire? Gore and Bradley have perfected their performance. They sound like a guy and his brother-in-law who are forced to get together at Thanksgiving and for some reason - old family history, or maybe it's that one of them beat out the other for president of the student council a long time ago - cannot refrain from whining at each other, just this side of nastiness, as they split hairs over health care...