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...just fly by wild and free..." Tim McGraw's voice rings out from a boom box perched on an aluminum grandstand, behind a well-worn softball diamond. Beth Perez, 17, is playing catch and humming along, until she sees the yellow sign hanging from the chain-link backstop: WE LOVE YOU MR. AVERBUCH...
...Ralph promptly fired the ball home and forced the runner coming onto third to hold there. The Crimson failed to cut off the incoming throw as the runner receded to third, and it short-hopped past sophomore catcher Jason Keck and Duffel and went all the way to the backstop...
...others that were free-standing. These tables are places to linger over a meal outside and listen to Hannah's sparkling laugh echo across the Quad; they are surfaces to sketch out thesis notes and to do take-home exams. One table, tipped on its side, becomes a backstop for a pitcher when Julian, our senior tutor, steps up to home plate and slugs a ball into the cupola on top of Briggs Hall...
...Clinton, on the other hand, comes across as a Mandarin to Mandarins, would do better than Dole in coming across as a Talent to Talents, and might even be able to seem more like "one of us" to Lifers if Dole didn't have his heroic military service to backstop himself with his natural constituency...
...court, however, the "Japan premium" nearly doubled for the more troubled Japanese banks. The premium had also edged higher after Leach revealed the existence of the Fed's agreement with Tokyo. The U.S. move had a double-edged effect--while it served to reassure financial markets of an emergency backstop for Tokyo, it also implied that Japan's banks must be in serious trouble...