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Schuppe is working on a nonfiction narrative entitled “Ghetto Ball: A Coach, His Team, and the Struggle of an American City,” which focuses on a Little League baseball team in inner-city Newark coached by a paraplegic former drug dealer...
...Crimson took the first three points of the second set with two massive kills from Jones. Up 11-7, Kuld stepped up to the service line and smacked the ball for an ace to extend the team’s lead to five...
With the home team within two points of taking the set, Jones spiked a ball just inside the back line to give Harvard set point, and a tip by Kuld won the set, 30-27, to earn the Crimson a commanding a two-set lead...
Again, Kuld and Jones stepped up, sparking a 14-6 run with a tip and a block for the senior and a kill from the sophomore. On match point, the Saints’ Thomas McCaffrey spiked the ball on what looked to be a sure winner, but freshman Rob Lothman was there for the block to take the final set, 30-23, giving the Crimson its second...
...intervene: members are expected to raise the issue at the body's next session in April. "The E.U.'s inaction is unacceptable and I'm bitterly disappointed," says British M.P. Richard Howitt. "It's complacency: the E.U.'s member states and institutions have taken their eye off the ball." Heidi Hautala, who chairs the parliament's subcommittee on human rights, has also pledged to force the E.U. member states to close the loopholes. "E.U. governments simply failed to take the rules seriously enough," she says. "It is shameful - the E.U. can talk but not deliver. It cannot portray itself...