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...quite a decision." Lasorda, who has spent 47 of his 50 years in pro baseball in the Dodgers organization will remain as a vice president. Bill Russell, who stepped in for Lasorda after the surgery, becomes just the third manager for the Dodgers since 1954. Lasorda and his predecessor Walt Alston are two of only four major league managers ever to spend 20 years or more with one team. In comparison, since Lasorda began his reign as manager, the New York Yankees have made 18 managerial changes. The manager with the longest current tenure is Pittsburgh's Jim Leyland...
...microscopic examinations of pieces of the plane's skin and infrastructure, looking for metal damage characteristic of a powerful bomb blast. "An explosion generates temperatures and velocities of detonation that are far greater than those encountered in a crash scenario due to mechanical failure," says Chris Ronay, Thurman's predecessor as chief of the FBI bomb unit. "You get torturing, feathering, pitting and tearing in metal that's entirely different from damage inflicted by a fire or a fall...
...timing isn't bad either. In summer even serious readers beg to have their disbelief suspended, and The Last Don obliges. It is a headlong entertainment, bubbling over with corruption, betrayals, assassinations, Richter-scale romance and, of course, family values. As in its famous predecessor, unquestioned loyalty, unexamined cash flow and expedient ways of dealing with competition are givens, but this story is set in the '80s--and the slick Clericuzios make the Corleones seem as if they just got off the boat. Gone from the new novel are the entry-level rackets and suspiciously profitable olive-oil business. Instead...
...quite a decision." Lasorda, who has spent 47 of his 50 years in pro baseball in the Dodgers organization will remain as a vice president. Bill Russell, who stepped in for Lasorda after the surgery, becomes just the third manager for the Dodgers since 1954. Lasorda and his predecessor Walt Alston are two of only four major league managers ever to spend 20 years or more with one team. In comparison, since Lasorda began his reign as manager, the New York Yankees have made 18 managerial changes. The manager with the longest current tenure is Pittsburgh's Jim Leyland...
...explosions here, just a skeleton unearthed from a shallow grave after a 30-year rest. Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), sheriff in Frontera, a Texas border town where even corruption proceeds at a somnolent pace, has reason to believe these to be the earthly remains of a sadistic and crooked predecessor, Charley Wade (Kris Kristofferson). He also guesses that his late father Buddy, who succeeded Charley as sheriff but is widely regarded as a saint, may have been Charley's murderer...