Word: aaron
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...convinced that something beyond Expos I is necessary," said Jonathan Aaron, co-director of the new class, recently. Aaron, who directed a popular course at Yale similar to Expos II, explained that the ability to write has become increasingly important in most professional fields...
...cockles of football fans' hearts, Garvey has frequently turned over the podium to Players Association President Gene Upshaw of the Los Angeles Raiders, Stan White of Detroit or Tom Condon of Kansas City. Other players have eagerly appeared on local TV, among them Brian Baschnagel in Chicago, Aaron Kyle in Denver, Mark Murphy in Washington, Jimmy Cefalo in Miami and Beasley Reece in New York. If nothing else comes of this, the stereotype of the big dumb football player may have been thrown for a lasting loss...
Meanwhile Yaz, a 17-time All-Star, does not seem to be able to recall any of his numbers or hold on to many of his trophies, except for the 3,000 hits and 400 home runs, of course. No other American Leaguer ever achieved that parlay. Only Henry Aaron, Willie Mays and Stan Musial of the National League, and Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz has kept just those two baseballs in 22 years. Yastrzemski's habit is to relay his trophies, like an ordinary cutoff man, to Presidents of the U.S. "I've presented one to every President since...
...rather than sad, Rose's obsession has always made some people mad. The thing is, Rose won't even walk when he gets a walk. At an All-Star Game several years ago, Aaron was berating Joe Morgan over what an infernal hot dog Rose was, and Morgan was shaking with laughter. "You sound like me before I played with him every day," Morgan said. "He plays the game that way because it's the only way he knows how to play it, probably the only way he can play it. He gives everything...
...addition to his full-time duties as rabbi in a suburban New England town, Harold Kushner has become rabbi to a nationwide congregation. It all began in 1966 when Kushner's son Aaron was found to have progeria, a rare disease that drastically accelerates the aging process. Aaron died in 1977 at the age of 14, with the body of a small old man. The depression and grief threw Kushner into a shock of theological doubt: How could God be a force for good if such an unwarranted horror could be visited on one of his own ministers...