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...that court, there was stunned silence, yet everywhere else at the Hokie's Burrows-Burleson Tennis Center there was a sense of normalcy. The top dog Tribe ripped apart Richmond while the Nos. 2 and 3 seeds--Kentucky and Virginia Commonwealth--cruised into the semifinals. Harvard was the only team missing...
...repression soon took more concrete form. The Espionage Act, which took effect on June 5, 1917, put unprecedented powers in the hands of the federal government. It forbade anyone from interfering with military operations (a provision that was interpreted quite liberally) and empowered Postmaster General Albert Burleson to close the mail system to groups deemed subversive. Under the act's provisions, Burleson prevented more than a dozen socialist journals from circulating and blocked individual issues of a number of other magazines...
Last week in Fort Worth, a jury heard evidence in what prosecutors describe as the epidemic's first criminal trial. A 40-year-old programmer named Donald Gene Burleson is accused of infecting a former employer's computer with a virus-like program that deleted more than 168,000 records of sales commissions. Burleson says he is innocent, but he was ordered to pay his former employer $12,000 in a civil case based on similar charges. If convicted, he could face ten years in prison...
...player will always share a unique bond, whether or not the player chooses to acknowledge his audience. Rick Burleson is still my all-time hero, even though the one time I shouted encouragement from the stands he scowled and looked down at the infield grass. I never knew why, but I'd like to think he appreciated the recognition...
...league baseball through the prism of the team he covers, the Red Sox. His first two chapters contrast the 1975 team, a group that seemed on the verge of establishing a New England dynasty, and the mediocre 1983 team--long since stripped of stars like Fred Lynn, Fisk, Rick Burleson and Cecil Cooper--which struggled to avoid last place. Gammons then traces the years between these two poles discussing in minute detail the course of each season, from both an athletic and business perspective. The argument is an important one; the free agent system has changed the sport from...