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...September's pennant-race plot line all the drama of a ratings war between Arsenio Hall and Chevy Chase. Nix the three-way scramble among the Blue Jays, Yankees and Orioles: the second-place team, based on current records, would be the American League wild card. Forget the monthlong showdown between the Giants and the surging Braves -- San Francisco and Atlanta would be running away with their respective divisions. The details of National League realignment are still up in the air, but if Atlanta were in the new Central Division, all the N.L. division races would already be wrapped...
...Israeli opposition claims, and given Arafat's history, it is hardly an implausible claim. In the eyes of Likud, a P.L.O. entity in the West Bank and Gaza would be a kind of mini-Syria in its midst, an implacable enemy building a deadly new platform for the final showdown with the Jews...
WHILE BILL CLINTON RELAXED ON Martha's Vineyard last week, staff members were sweating and fretting back in Washington, studying computer models for answers to one of the most explosive questions facing his health-care-reform proposal. That question -- the subject of a showdown meeting scheduled with the President this week -- is, How many jobs will be lost during the long transition to reform...
...TITLE: SHOWDOWN AT OPAL CREEK...
...tough-minded look at boyhood during the Depression. MUSIC Clint Black sings radio-ready country pop that has a splash of introspection. From Britain's Gavin Bryars comes a minimalist milestone. THEATER That spunky orphan is back, but in Annie Warbucks, her appeal is much scaled down. BOOKS Showdown at Opal Creek is a clear, sensitive account of the timber wars in Oregon and the fate of the last old- growth stands...