Arbitration Panel Suspends Yankee Alex Rodriguez for 2014 Season
"I can remember lemons," said Winston. "They were quite common in the fifties. They were so sour that it set your teeth on edge even to smell them."
"I bet that picture's got bugs behind it," said Julia. "I'll take it down and give it a good clean some day. I suppose it's almost time we were leaving. I must start washing this paint off. What a bore! I'll get the lipstick off your face afterwards."
The decision was handed down by a three-man panel chaired by arbitrator Fredric Horwitz. Major League Baseball originally had suspended Mr. Rodriguez in August for 211 games for his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Mr. Rodriguez said he would seek to stop the suspension in court. "I have been clear that I did not use performance-enhancing substances as alleged in the notice of discipline…and to prove it I will take this fight to federal court," he said in a statement.
Winston did not get up for a few minutes more. The room was darkening. He turned over towards the light and lay gazing into the glass paperweight. The inexhaustibly interesting thing was not the fragment of coral but the interior of the glass itself. There was such a depth of it, and yet it was almost as transparent as air. It was as though the surface of the glass had been the arch of the sky, enclosing a tiny world with its atmosphere complete. He had the feeling that he could get inside it, and that in fact he was inside it, along with the mahogany bed and the gateleg table, and the clock and the steel engraving and the paperweight itself. The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.
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