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...terrain gets cluttered. But Matthiessen is a man who can write his way out of any storm. What an old-timer says of his wood pony applies equally to Matthiessen: He can "turn on a dime and give back nine cents change." On a good day, maybe even eleven...
...Bush Administration decided to settle the case for $8.5 million. That was "the most efficient way" of settling the dispute, explained a Justice Department spokesman. Said Karen Scott: "I don't think I'll ever get over my anger. Johnathan should be out in the yard playing with his eleven-year-old brother...
Already this year three managers have been asked to seek challenges elsewhere in the private sector. And just last Friday master strategist Whitey Herzog suddenly quit after eleven years as skipper of the St. Louis Cardinals. Earlier in the season Davey Johnson, who led the New York Mets to a World Championship in 1986, was terminated despite a career winning percentage of .593. Bucky Dent was the latest casualty of the mercurial reign of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who must believe that God loves Yankee managers since he made so many of them. And in Atlanta's answer...
...communicate with 25 ballplayers." Cashen looks like a genius for his decision to replace Johnson with third-base coach Buddy Harrelson. In the ensuing six weeks the Mets have gone from Bart Simpson underachievers to the Shea-hey kids, winning 70% of their games, including a streak of eleven in a row. "This is a real team now," Harrelson says with pride. "They think as a team and act as a team. It's not me, it's the whole situation." But would the talented Mets have turned their season around no matter who was in charge? Harrelson shrugs...
...stopped by a cop for oblivious driving"; "Instead of Nero/ We got Madonna/ She's fiddling with herself.") The son of a UCLA political science professor, Baerwald was born in Ohio and at the age of five trailed his father's academic career to Japan. When he was eleven, the family returned to Los Angeles, where he eventually drifted into the music slipstream and decided that "the only way to play rock music was to live." That meant skipping college. That meant parental disapproval. That meant some rough knocks and tight corners...