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From Our readers Are actual diamonds next?

RUSS BAKER Jonesboro, NAVARRO Roswell, CARLOS B, LANDERS Clarkston, GLENN M, Frost, Ashley, MOWREY Atlanta, PETER C, EMAN Atlanta, JOEL H, CLAY WILLIS Sugar Valley, DONNA MORRIS JORDAN Athens, BULLARD Lawrenceville, JOHN E, EDDIE ROSS Marietta

1996

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It is interesting that the Atlanta Braves will reward Steve Avery for his sub-par year with a 1996 salary that will exceed the lifetime earnings of Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig and Mickey Mantle combined. I'm not suggesting that the Yankees got a better deal, but among these guys, a total of 8,804 regular-season major-league games were played for less money than Avery will make this year, and the Braves might get nine complete games out of him. At this rate, they will be offering multiyear, seven-figure contracts to the ball boys in another 10 years. Hey, I can do that job. The article \"How the South sees Buchanan,\" referring to Pat Buchanan's rhetoric as \"anti-immigration and pro-Confederate,\" is appallingly misleading. Buchanan proposes stopping illegal immigration and placing some controls on legal immigration for a few years until the illegals are detected and either deported or assimilated. He praises immigrants who assimilate into our culture. Buchanan has never uttered a pro-Confederate statement. The article said Buchanan \"has questioned efforts to deport alleged Nazi war criminals,\" which on the surface is true. It is misleading without also mentioning that the one alleged Nazi war criminal defended by Buchanan was cleared of all charges by an Israeli court, and a terrible miscarriage of justice was prevented, mostly because of Buchanan's courage to face the politically correct press that is still trying to find something wrong with this act of political bravery.

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