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...BATON ROUGE, La.--The pregame press notes provided by Cal State-Fullerton mentioned rather conspicuously that yesterday's starter, freshman lefthander Jon Smith, "has an excellent pickoff move...
Looking for the last three College World Series champions? They're bearing down on Baton Rouge, Louisiana for the beginning of the long march back to Omaha...
Harvard one-through-nine, a Murderer's Row in its own right, brings its monstrously successful run-and-gun lineup to Baton Rouge having scored 38 runs in its last four games--against Princeton and LeMoyne, ranked 20th and first nationally in ERA, respectively...
When Vovo Bossongo, an opposition-party member in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was dragged into a Kinshasa jail last January, the authorities skipped the usual beating. Instead, security agents poked the young woman with a 2-ft.-long shock baton whose electric jolts eventually left her unconscious. When Chinese prison guards tired of kicking Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso, they shoved a black clublike shock baton down his throat and charged it up. The current that raced through his body left him crumpled on the floor "in a pool of blood and excrement and in extreme pain," he recalls...
...tour of the United States, Han's accomplishments range from graduating from The Juilliard School at 18 to playing at a gala event for President Nelson Mandela last season. During the opening strains of Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Han fixed his gaze upon the baton, bobbing his head slightly and effortlessly threading his melody into that woven by the full orchestra. Every note in the cascading arpeggios of the concerto resounded under Han's steady fingertips, and the interchange between pianist and orchestra was seamless. Pausing to wipe his brow, cheeks and hands during every...