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Haviland, for his part, benefited from a mechanical tip from Walsh—“I was pulling my front side out,” he said, “I was throwing more than pitching”—to recover from his bout with wildness...
Luckily, though, the error was wiped away by an insane bout of symmetry in the bottom of the same frame...
...title bout saw the 2002 and 2003 winners (Michigan and Indiana, respectively) square off in a back-and-forth match with an NCAA tournament berth on the line...
...DIED. EZER WEIZMAN, 80, pragmatic, influential former Israeli President; after a bout of pneumonia; in Caesarea, Israel. Wry, caustic and often chauvinistic?he once responded to a young woman wanting to be a combat pilot by asking, "Have you ever seen a man knitting socks?"?he guided the Israeli air force, a unit he built and commanded from 1958 to 1966, to its rapid, preemptive victory in the six-day Arab-Israeli war. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hardliners and, through his rapport with then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, helped cement that country...
...can’t tell for sure. But we do know that no public figure can operate effectively under such intense scrutiny. Summers has had his problems with public speaking. His tact must reflect his position as Harvard’s president. This current bout of criticism, though, borders on ridiculous. Our president shouldn’t have to publish transcripts of every speech he gives just to ensure he isn’t radically misquoted or misunderstood. And our president shouldn’t get dragged through the press for every vaguely contentious remark he makes. No public figure...