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...system is a real tough system,” Murphy said. “You’ve got to do a lot of thinking in the defensive zone. Our young players struggle with that kind of thought process right off the bat. I know as a coach intuitively we’re starting to understand it a little better and get more comfortable...
...encourage his viewers to in fact boycott Pepsi, but by then the damage was already done—Pepsi dropped Ludacris the day after O’Reilly’s program. Ludacris’ replacement, Ozzy Osbourne, a man who has bitten the head off of a live bat and strangled his wife in a drug-induced stupor, was apparently fine by O’Reilly’s standards...
Ichiro heads home to take a crack with the bat in the Tokyo Dome, and China gets down to dance trio Morcheeba. All this and more coming this March in Asia. Here are our picks of things...
...much more pleasant than working solo. It is also the intellectual environment that the Harvard admissions brochures brag about: “Ari, would you say that the child in my source is ‘hitting’ the other child with a baseball bat?” “Katie, do you think it’s okay to have a fifty page Appendix to make it look longer...
There is a secret, shameful part of every American that longs to attend a small, quaint, exclusive boarding school in the English countryside. The crack of the cricket bat, the furtive cigarettes, the obligatory corporal punishment--like buried memories from our Colonial past, they arouse atavistic, Anglophilic urges. Some people get their Brit fix from Harry Potter. They will get that, and much more, from William Boyd's brilliant, beautiful and exceptionally British Any Human Heart (Knopf; 498 pages...