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...leaders of Mongolia's Communist Party have been slow to put their faith in shinechiel (renewal). But once convinced, they have proved fervent converts. Last week the party that has ruled the remote republic for 66 years abolished its monopoly on power, promised multiparty elections by year's end and replaced the entire five-member Politburo with a younger, more progressive slate. Said Foreign Ministry spokesman Tepbishiin Chimeddorj: "This is the beginning of real change...
...principals were ousted by local councils. The dismissals were the first big test of a revolutionary decentralization scheme launched last fall by the city of Chicago. Under the plan, locally elected councils -- composed of six parents, two community residents, two teachers and an ex- officio member, the principal -- were put in charge of each of Chicago's 541 public schools. The aim was to shift authority from the city's bloated board of education to local neighborhoods. But giving parents the power to hire and fire principals, approve budgets and develop long-range plans for improving student performance...
...three basketball games this season at 9:30 p.m. to suit ESPN's Monday-night schedule. Coach Bobby Knight complained, noting that his players did not get home from away games until 3 a.m. "To hell with damned ESPN," he told a campus newspaper. "This is absolutely ridiculous to put a college student through." Other Big Ten coaches are more sanguine about the trade-off. "When you talk about the dollars and the exposure," says Michigan State coach Jud Heathcoate, "I think we have to make some sacrifices in our schedule...
...lure of lucrative TV contracts also contributes to a win-at-all-costs mentality that can lead to recruitment scandals and other abuses. "The more pressure you put on, the greater the chances are for coaches to take shortcuts," says Bob Frederick, athletic director at the University of Kansas. Harry Edwards, sports sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, sees TV as a major culprit in the corruption of sports. "The eyes of the athlete have shifted from what you can do to challenge yourself," he says, "to how much money you can make...
When Capriati was three, her father Stefano, a self-taught tennis pro who emigrated from Milan, put a racquet into her hands; by the time she was four, she was fending off barrages from a ball machine and was delivered into the tutelage of Jimmy Evert, whose most famous coaching product was his daughter Christine Marie. Last year Capriati won the 18-and-under titles at the French and U.S. Opens and made the junior quarterfinals at Wimbledon...