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Burly relief pitcher Rod Beck, a three-time All-Star with 286 saves in his career, will be remembered for his menacing sliders, 90-m.p.h. fastballs and career-best 51 saves for the Chicago Cubs in 1998. But the blue-collar "Shooter" will also take his place in history for his 2003 stint with the Cubs' Triple-A Iowa team. Though depressed and struggling to get back to the majors after elbow surgery, the colorful closer lived in his RV outside the team's Des Moines stadium, regularly opening his home to players and fans for post-game parties. Beck...
Eighteen years from now an old curtain will rise to expose a production that will pave the path for African and European unification once again. The deep blue color of the Mediterranean Sea will not lose a twinkle, the Strait of Gibraltar will still separate Spain from Morocco, but the underlying sea bed—and possibly Spanish-Moroccan relations—will never be the same again. No, it isn’t a miscalculation of a Pangea Ultima configuration; the governments of Spain and Morocco just agreed to construct an underwater tunnel to connect their rail systems...
...appeal, of course, can be intense. Blue-chip private equity firm the Blackstone Group, which sold 12% of itself to the public on June 22, has returned an annualized 30% over the past 20 years to the pension funds, endowments and high net-worth individuals invested in its flagship private equity portfolio. On the first day of trading, Blackstone's public shares surged...
Brian J. Bolduc ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Winthrop House when he is not attempting to turn blue states...
...from the office of the new Iraqi security forces commander for the city, Gen. Adnon Thabit. Foot soldiers from the Iraqi national police sent to Samarra in recent weeks had killed the man that morning during a firefight with insurgents, roped him to the back of one of their blue and white trucks by the feet and then dragged him through the city for all to see before stringing him up. The Americans, who've been working with the national police to check sectarian tensions here, cut the corpse down, wrapped it in a body bag and sent...