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Editor's Note: Former Harvard hurler Frank Herrmann '06, a prospect with the Cleveland Indians, reported to camp in Winter Haven, Fla. last week. This is his diary...
Over the course of my first few days at Cleveland Indians’ Spring Training I have experienced many firsts, from having a bearded woman take my order at the local Winter Haven Taco Bell to seeing my name sewn on the back of a professional baseball jersey. Almost from the onset, I have felt like an alien in a foreign country...
...Harvard baseball team, a unit loaded with uncertainties but possessing immeasurable potential.The rotation is hampered by the loss of two key, experienced starters from a season ago. Mike Morgalis graduated and Frank Herrmann chose to forego his senior season to sign a professional contract with the Cleveland Indians organization.Herrmann’s early exit, especially, stings the teammates he left behind in Cambridge. “We would have loved to have Frank come back,” sophomore Shawn Haviland says. “I think that if Frank had come back, not to say that we still...
...grown rapidly since it became eligible for government subsidies in 1991. About two-thirds of Australia's long-day-care centers are now privately run - 660 of them by Brisbane-based ABC Learning Centres, the world's largest listed child-care provider. Not everyone welcomes the boom. Gordon Cleveland, a child-care economist at the University of Toronto, says Canadian observers are dismayed by Australia's "dependence on the corporate sector - it really frightens us." He argues that child-care providers whose chief aim is satisfying shareholders should not be receiving government help: "When you have subsidies available to large...
...countries tackle the dilemma of infant child care by providing paid parental leave - in Canada, women who work 600 hours the year before their child is born qualify for a year's paid leave, which they can share with their partner. "It helps with family bonding," says Toronto economist Cleveland, "and gets rid of the problems with infant care levels." But despite a long campaign for a national paid parental leave scheme, Australia remains one of the few developed nations without...