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...characters they bring in. As my dad reminded me, before the Birmingham Barons were the White Sox AAs affiliate, they were the Birmingham A’s of the Kansas City A’s farm system. During that time the likes of Reggie Jackson, Vida Blue, “Campy” Campaneris, and Rollie Fingers rolled through my hometown. And with Billy Beane’s managerial approach of recruiting based on qualified stats as opposed to quantified stats, the characters are likely to keep coming. But what it ultimately came down to was the fact that...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips | Title: A FAN FOR SALE FINALE: This Fan is Sold | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...Hussam's Blue Sky Restaurant is almost a counterpoint to the explosive nature of day-to-day security in Baghdad. Blue Sky stands in front of a minimall that sells clothes and toys on busy Rubaie Street, the main drag of the mixed-sect, middle-class Zayuna neighborhood. Reflecting on the news, Hussam is impressed by the drop in Iraqi fatalities: just 240 deaths in July 2009, an 86% drop from the same month in the bad year of 2007. "It's a large difference," Hussam says. "Better than two years ago." The paint in his restaurant is bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Bombs of August: A Return to the Bad Old Days? | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...every article - including this one - is liable to send visitors to their websites, which could help them recruit members and raise funds. "The Obama campaign was brilliant. We learned a lot from it," says Griffin. So much, in fact, that online antiracist campaign Hope Not Hate has turned to Blue State Digital, an Internet consultancy that worked on the Obama campaign, to mobilize activists against the BNP by explaining that the party's smooth public image conceals a racist agenda. "It's very easy to attack a party that has a swastika as its emblem," says Sonia Gable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The March to the Far Right | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...Though he made a living as an advertising designer, Heinz Edelmann, 75, is best known for creating the psychedelic look of Pepperland in the 1968 Beatles cartoon film Yellow Submarine, complete with dancing typography and music-hating villains called Blue Meanies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...Tercentenary Theater’s elms fell last Saturday night and caused minor damage to Sever Hall.  The tree, which once stood between Sever Hall and Memorial Church, damaged Sever bricks, broke a window, and tore screens on its way down. Additionally, it knocked over a blue light police phone pole...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: If a Tree Falls in Tercentenary... | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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