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...have never been a breeding ground for the mayors. The "baseball factories" are in the South and especially the West where the weather is much more conducive to baseball, counting for the seasons that last longer. The Arizona State alumni book includes Reggie Jackson. Rick Monday, Craig Swan, and Bump Wills, Tom Seaver, Bill Lee, Steve Kemp and Fred Lynn each graced the USC campus. Harvard's contributions to the last decade of big league ball is Pete Varney, who played out a mediocre career with the White Sox and who now coaches at Brandeis...
...gently rural aspect, western enough to have once been on the frontier, eastern enough to have a past." He came-up with Hamilton, "a city, a self-contained town, a suburb, a satellite in the orbits of both Cincinnati and Dayton, a minor metropolitan cluster, a country seat, a bump on the plain, a galactic microdot where 63.189 people want to see what will happen next. "Davis probably could not have done better in his search for an American stew, but his selection begs the question of the value of conveniently designating one city or town as a microcosm...
...ideas, a Conrad or Dostoyevsky of the silver screen, and will go to any convoluted lengths to get a strained or totally phony argument going. In this case, the great mogul (played with a flashy show of menacing teeth by Klaus Kinski) wishes to bump off the revolutionary (Armand Assante) and hires the rebel leader's old Harvard roommate to do the job. This character (Ray Sharkey) pretends to go along with the scheme because he is a victim both of existential ennui and of a sudden obsessional letch for the financier's wife. Much show...
...yesterday local expert on South Africa said that any distinctions between different loans to South Africa are "forced." Making so-called humanitarian loans "is like saying if the Nazis are going to bump off the Jews, let's make it a little more comfortable," said Kenneth N. Carstens, head of the Cambridge-based International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa...
...former teammates may bump heads against in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Barnes was a consolation finalist at the 1980 Olympic Trials and said he plans to spend next fall training for a shot at the 23rd Olympiad...