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...Those nine-inning games are always going to [require] a combination of pitchers,” Mager said. “And it’s nice to be able to count on your bull...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Notebook: Workhorse Crockett Defies Pitch Count | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...make somebody cry. The most notorious moment in Spaces history came when he redid a living room for a Seattle couple who asked that he not alter the wife's beloved brick fireplace. It was like waving a maroon, dark green and oatmeal flag in front of a bull. "'Don't paint the fireplace!'" he recalls. "Fine. I won't paint the fireplace." He built a screen around it instead, and the wife duly burst into tears. "[The screen] wasn't earth shattering," he insists. "But her shrieks were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Love Those Curtains! | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 recently compared Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (and University President Lawrence H. Summers) to a bull in a china shop. This analogy, at one level, is grossly incorrect and unfair: the disputed territories in Israel do not remotely resemble a shop that sells china. China does not demand appeasement through coercive violence as Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat demands from Ariel Sharon...

Author: By Ronen E. Mukamel, | Title: Both Summers and Sharon Resist Coercion | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...frame his opinion outside of the conflict that currently exists in the Middle East. His statement says that, in one way—and in one particular way only—Summers and Sharon are similar: they both have a tendency to act like a “bull in a china shop.” The comparison of Summers to Sharon is a metaphor; it is not some larger commentary on West’s political views...

Author: By Brandon A. Gayle, | Title: The Crimson Staff Does Not Speak for Us | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...However, I think Professor West probably used that as part of his…political leanings right now, and I don’t think the comparisons really work well—it could have been any bull in a china shop and not just Ariel Sharon,” Moore said...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: West Blasts Summers, Says Gates Likely To Go | 4/16/2002 | See Source »

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