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Japanese high school baseball looking at ways to shorten games, preserve pitcher's arms

TOKYO – The marathon pitching exploits of Japan’s high school baseball players may soon be a thing of the past. Japan’s High School Baseball Federation is considering introducing measures such as a tiebreaker and pitch counts limits in order to protect the health of the country’s future stars. New York …

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For Newt Gingrich, It's Good to Be Bad

The higher Newt Gingrich flies, the more flak he gets. Some of it comes with the turf of being the GOP front-runner, but in Gingrich’s case, it’s also true that his past is gaining on him. His history of self-aggrandizement, influence peddling and the hypocrisy of carrying on an affair …

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Charlie Rangel is the Poster Child for Term Limits

As the House prepares to launch on Thursday a rare, public ethics inquiry into alleged misdeeds by New York Rep. Charlie Rangel, it is clear that Rangel remains defiant. He is fighting the House Ethics Committee tooth and nail, claiming that he wants to “make certain, before this election, people …

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