Acting base-ball commissioner Bud Selig announced that the players’ strike couldn’t be resolved and he was canceling the rest of the season, and the World Series, for the first time since 1904. Their different tactics, side by side, made for a fascinating and revealing juxtaposition. On April 6, Justice Harry Blackmun announced his retirement from the Supreme Court. Apparently, Arafat had thought the time to decide, five minutes to midnight, had finally come.
Soon all but two of them would sign. The atmosphere of hostility was intensified by right-wing radio talk-show hosts, whose venomous rhetoric pervaded the airwaves daily, and by Web site Accompanied by John Kennedy Jr. Mayor Giuliani had withdrawn, and her new opponent, Long Island congressman Rick Lazio, presented a new challen
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