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Derek Lowe characterized the Red Sox as one "big dysfunctional family." After witnessing the Everett saga, he never seemed more right. This season has not been pretty--from starting pitchers' anger about being pulled early by Williams to the abrupt departures of Mike Stanley and Jeff Frye. But Duquette reached a new low by publicly backing one of his players over his manager...
...announcement--along with former Brown President E. Gordon Gee's abrupt move to Vanderbilt University and the impending departure of Harvard's President Neil L. Rudenstine--means that three prestigious institutions may find themselves competing for the same top prospects...
...cancellations came on the heels of the abrupt postponement of Afro-American Studies 10: "Introduction to Afro-American Studies" on Monday...
...While it won?t raise the same kind of international outrage as steamrolling a pro-democracy protestor in the middle of Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government?s abrupt seizure of the 200-page photographic retrospective has already raised eyebrows in the U.S. State Department. Monday, as Chinese book-binding workers prepared to send glossy volumes of "The Clinton Years: The Photographs of Robert McNeely" to American distributors, customs officials stopped the shipment and confiscated the books. It appears that one picture in particular may be to blame: A photo of President Clinton exchanging a handshake with the Dalai Lama reportedly...
...Getting a feel for Guinness was harder. "I'm afraid I was a little abrupt recently with a producer who sent me a screenplay," he once confessed. "It was rubbish, really. I sent it back with a polite rejection. Then he came back with the plea that 'we tailored it just...