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...collective bargaining agreement provides for a uniform contract that sets employment terms for all players. A player and team cannot change it except to increase the minimum salary or to add "special covenants that contain an actual or potential benefit to the player," explains Clark Griffith, a lawyer and sports law professor in Minneapolis, Minn. Bonds would obviously not benefit from either an out-clause for indictments or a waiver of the right to challenge a Giants decision, so both provisions would seem unenforceable...
...uniform contract also allows teams to void a deal if the player misbehaves - meaning the player doesn't act like a good citizen or sportsman, doesn't stay in shape, refuses to play or otherwise breaches the contract. Teams often argue without success that this provision covers a host of sins, but Paul Weiler, a sports law professor at Harvard Law School, says behavior that prompts an indictment is probably just the type of bad citizenship contemplated in the language. Unless Bonds is convicted, though, "I doubt [the Giants] would enforce it," Weiler explains, because "Bonds is in his last...
...Then her grown daughters brought over a Wii. Together they played bowling, tennis and golf. "It got a little exhausting," Zamora says, but she was hooked and began playing on her own every day. Soon after joining a local bowling league, she was named the league's Most Improved Player. "What this game did for me was encourage me that I could still do these kinds of things," she says. "It came around when I needed it. I can see where people could really benefit from being able to interact without having do to much physical exertion...
...many have misunderstood them to be, the partnerships are aimed at achieving political reform, sustainable economic growth and social justice. The China-Africa Summit that was held in China last year emphasized NEPAD as a long-term framework within which China should engage Africa. China is a critical player that Africa will work with strategically to establish fair procedures for international trade. As for colonization, the African people will ensure that it never happens again. Tshilidzi Marwala Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...disagree with Lev Grossman's hesitation to call the iPhone revolutionary because "it won't create a new market or change the entertainment industry the way the iPod did." The iPod wasn't the first portable MP3 player, and iTunes wasn't the first MP3 computer jukebox program. They were simply the best. I didn't buy an MP3 player until the iPod, and I didn't use an MP3 jukebox before iTunes. Guess what? I don't own a cell phone, but as soon as I can almost afford an iPhone, I'm going...