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He threw out a below-average 19.5% of base stealers last season, although much of the problem was attributed to the pitchers' lack of attentiveness.Martin must show he can hit big league pitching and handle big league pitchers with maturity."The young catchers are at a point where they need to take every opportunity to impress us," Little said.Alomar and Borders will be around to help, but they can't follow Navarro and Martin onto the field. Why is this seen by museum directors and some art critics as less exciting than winning an auction?Let's hope that the Getty's interim president, Deborah Marrow, and the trustees don't cave in to the chorus of wanna-be shoppers urging the institution to buy more at the highest prices. This can be brutal business, because the unearthed revelations are often highly personal.Undoubtedly there are feelings, ideas, images and words that can be dangerous when exposed. NBA commissioner David Stern allowed a meaningless All-Star game to be played in the gambling city, but if he was set against a team moving there before, the Gretzky scandal will give him another reason to say no.Gretzky will always be known as the greatest player ever to lace on skates.We will have to wait until long after the Turin Games to find out whether he'll also be known for something far less flattering..

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We are taking it very seriously and will take appropriate action when our investigation is complete."Matt Szabo, press secretary for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, said the department's "swift and thorough" response was "evidence that the zero tolerance policy of the mayor and chief is taking effect and that the culture of the Fire Department is changing."Word of the incident comes a week after a Los Angeles jury awarded $1.7 million to a former city firefighter who said he was the victim of retaliation for helping a black female firefighter who had accused the department of discrimination.And in December, Fire Chief William Bamattre resigned in the wake of a number of discrimination allegations against the department. was at the center of a 1,100-mile-plus network of trolley lines that allowed area residents to travel as far as Orange County.The wildly popular new automobiles were faster, though, and helped kill the region's transit system and encouraged further sprawl.In the 1930s, city planners began envisioning a Los Angeles that would be different from most big cities, particularly New York. 11 terrorist attacks, is expected to be pressed hard by Republicans and Democrats when he appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.The Bush administration has maintained that the storm -- one of the most destructive in U.S. Last month, Gyanendra's motorcade was stoned while on the way to a Hindu temple here in the capital. But its population of 140 million is quickly shrinking, and the insecurity of being overrun by foreigners has found its way to the marketplace, where for years Russians have mingled with the Tajiks bagging their vegetables, Georgians slicing their fish and Uzbeks weighing their mushrooms. "But knowing that she was there made it that much easier to cope with."The Hesperia couple requested to serve together, and the Army, under its recently implemented simultaneous deployment program for married couples, was happy to oblige. He ended up at Animal Rescue Inc., a no-kill shelter just across the Pennsylvania line.