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...Francisco Giants. Or the Oakland A's. Nice guys finish last...
...mercy-killing that would have made Jack Kevorkian proud, the Oakland A's finally pulled the plug on the Boston Red Sox' season last night, beating the Anaheim Angels 9-7 to maintain their lead in the AL wild card race. The win officially kills Boston's playoff hopes, which had been languishing on life support for the past week...
...baby boomers--who will live longer, have less-stable marriages and fewer children than preceding generations--sibling relationships are likely to last longer than any other personal bond. The good news is that most of those relationships are positive, according to Robby Stewart, a researcher at Oakland University in Michigan. He surveyed 658 adult siblings and found that their relationships fit into five categories: supportive, longing (for siblings you don't see), competitive, apathetic and hostile. Only 15% were hostile; most others felt they could rely on one another...
...process I describe in which I began by agreeing with affirmative-action policies but gradually began to feel different as I got older (long after the Stanford fellowship). One may not agree with my positions, but ideally a reviewer would more carefully address what I wrote. JOHN MCWHORTER Oakland, Calif...
...rules of cordiality toward the opposition, however much he grew to resent the autocratic leadership style of Jim Wright, the Democratic Speaker. When a young reporter asked Che-ney who was worth listening to among his House colleagues, he pointed her to Ron Dellums, a black Democrat from Oakland, Calif., who was far to the left of Cheney on just about everything. Whenever Dellums had the floor, Cheney told her, he always stopped to listen to what the man was saying...