nd irresponsible.But the Rodriguez deal makes that one look positively Little League. Next season, the coveted shortstop will make more money than all the players on the Minnesota Twins or the Milwaukee Brewers or the Kansas City Royals.It's an apt comparison. As bigmarket baseball clubs like the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers spend untold millions to secure the game's premier players, teams in smaller cities make do with the scraps.No team has folded or moved since 1972, when the Washington Senators moved to Texas to become the Rangers. But more teams report that they are losing money, and with Rodriguez's $27millionayear salary as the new benchmark, the future prosperity of Major League Baseball is as clouded as it has been since the days of the strike in 1994.Baseball has to deal with its financial imbalance, says Andrew Zimbalist, author of several books on the economics of sports. Something needs to be done, and this is one more piece of evidence that baseball is out of whack.The Rodriguez deal is
Spyder Ski Goggles of talking about women's issues in the past, some are still skeptical about the degree of progress that's been made.The gender gap is still there, says Brad Coker, president of MasonDixon Political/Media Research Inc. in Washington. It's not as wide as it's been in the last two elections, he says, but that doesn't mean it's permanently gone.(c) Copyright 2000. The Christian Science Publishing SocietyHere in our part of Maine, we don't see too much of the tanager, for he romances beyond us in the summer and keeps well south of us in cold weather. In passing, he limits us to a glimpse of scarlet as he romps to and fro. You must be alert indeed if you see him poised in a pine to prove the difference 'tween green and red.In the spring, he is always with the snow fleas. That is always a good week before you'll hear a
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Hollister Shirts years, especially when publicity surrounded the 1993 Candelaria Massacre, in which eight homeless children were murdered in front of the famous Rio de Janeiro church. Yet, the equally alarming state of nearservitude, in which tens of thousands of Brazilian laborers live, is unknown to most.Trapped by 'debts'Why isn't this issue more publicizedWhile one just needs to go to any major city in Brazil to see hordes of street children begging for money or food on every corner, or picking pockets of unsuspecting tourists and passersby, those who are forced to work, often at gunpoint, are mainly found in remote agricultural regions (like the Amazon forest), far from public view.The Catholic Church's Pastoral Land Commission has documented 25,000 cases of enslavement throughout the country, but this figure is understood to be just a tiny percentage of those living under indenture, for most of the victims have no opportunity to denounce the crime.Contemporary accounts of slave labor in Brazil seem right out of a John St
Spyder Ski Goggles ho believes California's antiimpeachment mood will seep into other races as well.Democrats are also touting polls showing that even many conservative Republicans now believe the impeachment has hurt their party's prospects for 2000. Some Republicans discount these polls, saying they include people who don't vote. Independent pollster John Zogby, who targets likely voters, recently polled a generic congressional ballot and found that Republicans still beat Democrats by a whisker, 40 percent to 39 percent.A matter of voter respectStill, many Republicans aren't pretending that the impeachment is good for the party's election standing. We could certainly lose the House, Rep. Mark Foley (R) of Florida told a local newspaper, while also calling on the Senate to wrap up the trial.Mike Collins, spokesman for the Republican National Committee, says that in the long run, voters will come to respect Republicans who voted their conscience and stood up for principle in voting to impeach.If only we raise the self esteem of the
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