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Although he doesn't agree with the evaluation, Bill Ripken's representative said he wasn't surprised that the Orioles proposed to cut the second baseman's salary by $70,000."

Although he doesn't agree with the evaluation, Bill Ripken's representative said he wasn't surprised that the Orioles proposed to cut the second baseman's salary by $70,000."

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Three Delmarva pitchers combined on a four-hitter for the second consecutive night, as the Shorebirds defeated the Charleston River Dogs, 6-0, last night in a Single-A South Atlantic League game.Shorebirds starter Javier Vazquez, 19, pitched 5 1/3 innings, striking out nine and allowing one hit, an infield single.Four of the Shorebirds' runs were unearned, as Charleston committed eight errors. Fernando Seguignol's three hits, including a triple, led Delmarva.Pub Date: 4/06/96

Ronald Simmont Sr. of Glen Burnie says he listens to NOAA Weather Radio every day, and he always hears the same voices: "How can this be? No matter what time I tune in, it's the same woman and guy giving the current conditions. Don't these people sleep?" They never do. They're computer-generated, text-to-speech synthetics. The lucious female voice is "Mara" (an upgraded "Donna"). The chipper male is "Tom." The Spanish-speaker is "Javier." Audio samples at weather.gov/nwr/newvoice.htm.

Dodgers: Chan Ho Pak, who in 1994 became one of the few players to make his professional debut in the majors, was making his seventh career appearance.Expos: Montreal played in its first game in under three hours: 2: 41.Giants: Barry Bonds played center field for the first time since Aug. 6, 1991, when he was with Pittsburgh. He moved over from left field in the sixth inning to replace Stan Javier, who left the game with a strained right hamstring. Javier's status is day-to-day.Marlins: Shortstop Kurt Abbott sat out because of a sore thigh, and second baseman Quilvio Veras remained sidelined for the second game in a row because of a strained left hamstring.

HAVANA -- Javier, an assistant manager at a state food distribution center, explains how Cubans make ends meet."When they're unloading the ships, the dock workers 'disappear' a few sacks or boxes of whatever comes in," he says."

Quote: "When I hit it, I knew it was far, but I didn't know if it would be a foul ball. I was happy all the way around the bases." - Tigers' Javier Cardona, on his first major-league home run It's a fact: The Blue Jays' David Wells has walked 25 batters in 163 2/3 innings. Who's hot: The Rangers' Gabe Kapler has a 19-game hitting streak. Who's not: Indians catcher Sandy Alomar has caught 17 of 73 would-be base stealers this season. On deck: The Indians are 11-6 against AL West teams and will play only clubs in that division the remainder of August.

The movie version of Love in the Time of Cholera doesn't have the drive or the dynamism to be an artistic nightmare. It's more like a dead dream, the kind that leaves nothing more behind in the light of day than a sickly cloud. The director, Mike Newell, and the screenwriter, Ronald Harwood, have taken novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez's sustained flight of grand passion and analyzed the swooping life right out of it. They've thought their way into an adaptation that needed to be intuitive and "felt," like Marquez's mighty marvel of a book.

Howard used a new starting lineup and a new defensive strategy to win its boys basketball league opener against Glenelg on Friday.During a holiday tournament, Glenelg beat the Lions by 13 points, and Howard had pressed defensively during that game. On Friday, the Lions beat the Gladiators, 69-65.Howard switched to a matchup zone and started a three-guard lineup of Aaron Graf, Jamaal Tyler and Jevon Michaux to go with forwards Javier Michaux and Devon Montoute. Only Tyler and Javier Michaux were starters when the season began.

The Other Side of the Bed is the tale of Pedro & Paula & Javier & Sonia; too bad it doesn't deserve to fold the bedsheets of Paul Mazursky's L.A. roundelay Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). In this Spanish comedy about sex among friends, Pedro loves Paula, who loves his best pal and tennis partner, Javier, who hasn't yet broken up with Sonia, who finds Pedro cute. The director, Emilio Martinez-Lazaro, peppers the film with uninhibited erotic scenes that could turn on audiences turned off by teen-age sex farces.