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...having just come up a flight of stairs, when he felt a sudden pain and a bit of a pop in his right calf. The calf was sore and it made him limp so he went to a commercial chain's urgent care center nearby (a "doc-in-the-box" in hospitalese) and thus began his saga. The story made me groan...
Sophomore lefty Ryan Watson relieved Brown with one out and runners on second and third, and promptly escaped the jam with one pitch—Dave Fisher lined it back through the box, Watson nabbed it, and sent it over to third base to double off the baserunner. He went on to deliver his most impressive performance to date: 3 1/3 innings of hitless relief to go with five strikeouts...
Improved tax structures and easier access to capital are the key to encouraging both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations to pursue social services, a star-studded panel told an audience at the Kennedy School of Government yesterday. The panel, titled “Thinking Outside the Box: New Corporate Structures, Tax Policy and Public Policy for 21st-Century Social Enterprises,” was moderated by Kennedy School professor and former presidential advisor David R. Gergen and included a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner, a former mayor of Indianapolis, and philanthropist Catherine B. Reynolds, who founded Loan...
...officials in the Pentagon, the accelerating violence simply proved the wisdom of excluding these Ba'athists and ex?army members from the future of Iraq. As late as the spring of 2004, at a meeting in the White House, one of our officers was asked for "out-of-the-box" ideas to stem the violence. He suggested rescinding CPA Proclamation Two and mounting an aggressive campaign to round up former army members and enlist them to help secure Iraq's borders and maintain internal security. As later described to me, a U.S. Army colonel present, who had been...
Picture a motorized loveseat that bangs against the wall and the floor, as an audio book plays from an attached pair of headphones. Or imagine an opaque, reflective black box made of Plexiglass and engraved with the sort of gibberish characters familiar from incompatibilities in word processing programs. Such pieces of installation art are no longer actually in existence, but images documenting their impermanent lifespan form part of a new exhibit, entitled “That Was Then and This is Now: interventions, installations, and performance art documented.” The showing, affiliated with The Harvard Advocate, will...