101. A Tuesday hearing is set for Boston, and another is scheduled for Friday in Baton Rouge, La. 102. About her only physical concession to old age is her hearing. 103. According to translations and a script provided by ABC News, the nearly two hour hearing was a series of insults. 104. After hearing there was no room for the fifth time, we began to panic. 105. After all the hearings are held and all the testimony is heard, he said, the presidential candidate will have the last word, not the committee. 106. All in all, the hearing was a pathetic display by a group of pathetically misguided politicians. 107. All of that emphasizes that such hearings are about theater and image and often, as was the case here, produce little new information. 108. All three were tendered contracts, so the Sox can still negotiate with them until arbitration hearings are set in May. 109. But because of a paper-work snafu, no parole hearing had been set. 110. But disciplinary hearings are still a last resort, usually reserved for the most flagrant incidents. |