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...Wisconsin) under manager Earl Weaver. (Weaver once claimed he knew even when Junior was a fetus that he was going to be a major leaguer.) An injury ended Senior's playing career soon afterward, so he embarked on a minor league managerial odyssey that took him to Leesburg, Florida; Appleton, Wisconsin; Kennewick-Richland-Pasco, Washington; Aberdeen, South Dakota; Elmira, New York; and Dallas. While Dad was away, Mom was home in Maryland raising the four kids, who were born just six years apart...
Pusey was chosen to head the University after serving as president of Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin for nine years. Partly because of the college's obscure location, he was considered a dark-horse candidate for the University's top officer...
...provision wound up in last year's crime bill. The idea first took shape in California, where 18-year-old Kimber Reynolds had been murdered by a career felon. It was electronic from its very inception: the legislation was co- authored by talk-radio host Ray Appleton from Fresno who knew the victim's father and had fielded outraged calls after the killer's lengthy criminal record came to light. As the idea gained ground in California, it spread east. Its popularity was electronically catalyzed -- on talk radio, especially -- and electronically expressed in telephone polls, on the airwaves...
Last year, Appleton Arena saw Harvard's Brian Farrell '94 score with four seconds left to tie the Saints, Perry Cohagan scoring 2:11 into overtime for the win. Unbelievably, this year's final seconds saw Steve Martins move the puck just as Farrell did along the left-side goal-line for a stuff-in attempt at the near post; Konik actually got to the rebound and flipped it into the net with the clock showing :01 remaining...
However, they are never easy to beat at home, as the noisy confines of Appleton Arena almost act as a seventh player...