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...leased in Miami and take them to Iran. The FBI arrested Sjeklocha and one associate in an Orlando hotel room and nabbed four other alleged conspirators in California. Colonel Gillespie was arrested at his home. At week's end St. Clair was still at large. This bust, in the eighth smuggling case in the past year, came on the heels of the unrelated arrests last month of seven other smugglers for attempting to ship fighter-plane parts to Iran...
...just won his eleventh consecutive game to break a club record that Seaver fashioned 16 years ago. "It's especially great coming today," said Gooden. "This is something I'll always remember." Seaver was about through beating the Yankees, 4-1, when returning to the dugout after the eighth inning, he brushed by the family field box to reassure Daughter Annie, 9. "Only three more outs to go," he murmured. "Good," she said happily, "then we can go home and go swimming." He finished the game filled with delight...
Biograph, a handily priced ($30) five-record retrospective of Dylan's career, is a heady reminder of his importance, the sort of overview usually given only to artists entering their eighth decade or ones who have met an untimely end. Dylan, however, released his 29th album, Empire Burlesque, in June, and, on that evidence, is still working at full power. So Columbia Records' release of Biograph puts him into a unique position: he is competing with himself, and is stacked up against his own past besides. No wonder he has professed mixed feelings about the Biograph project and took...
...eighth inning of Saturday’s Game 2, Schuyler Mann obliterated a low fastball from Yale reliever Brett Rosenthal, sending a dramatic, game-tying grand slam into the bushes beyond left-centerfield...
...only fitting, then, after right fielder Lance Salsgiver’s single drove in the prospective game-winning run at the end of the inning—which yielded Harvard a 5-4 eighth-inning edge—that Mann give himself the chance to bat again...