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...pitching staff has also received first-rate performances from the ambidextrous sophomore Jamie Irving (3-2, 3.72 ERA, a team-high 24 K's and 36 innings pitched, and a 2-0 Ivy League record) and from sophomore reliever Mike Cicero (2-0 Ivy and 2-0 overall with...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: The More Things Change... | 4/14/1993 | See Source »

Other keys to the pitching staff include sophomores Mike Cicero, Ben Allen and Jamie Irving. (Irving, by the way, is an ambidextrous switch-pitcher...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: SCRATCH-AND-CLAW BASEBALL | 3/24/1993 | See Source »

...noblest miracles, arising not from drugs but from creativity, are events of the imagination. Yet skeptics dismiss miracles as being "merely" imaginary. Cicero argued doggedly, "Nothing happens without a cause, and nothing happens unless it can happen. When that which can happen does in fact happen, it cannot be considered a miracle. Hence, there are no miracles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Believe in Miracles | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

Remembering Rome: History and Philosophy in Cicero's Platonic Dialogues--with Professor of Latin James Zetzel of Columbia University. In the Boylston Hall auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...entirely in "goos" and "aahs"; rather, we coax him, gradually, into speech, and then into higher and more complex speech. That, in fact, is the definition of education: to draw out, to teach children not what they know but what they do not know; to rescue them, as Cicero had it, from the tyranny of the present. The problem with visuals is not just that they bombard us with images and information only of a user-friendly kind but also that they give us no help in telling image from illusion, information from real wisdom. Reducing everything to one dimension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: History? Education? Zap! Pow! Cut! | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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