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...gritty enough to latch onto lovable losers like Rey Ordonez and Timo Perez. These are the same followers who were attracted to the Yankees by their “classy uniforms” and “winning tradition,” and by “how hot Derek Jeter is.” These are actual quotes, friends—quotes from people who think Andruw Jones is a typo and “Giambi” was the Robin Williams flick with the magic board game...
...will later. Sure, he looks harmless enough, almost cuddly. And he’s a good story—a below-average manager and a nice guy who had the good fortune to join the Yankees when the payroll hit $100 million. But then he’ll put Derek Jeter—who had a mediocre season—on the All-Star team ahead of Oakland’s Miguel Tejada, and invite about 80 other undeserving Yankees to the Midsummer Classic, and you’ll remember that he isn’t that hard...
Clutch: Having the ability to perform well in difficult situations. Vivid examples include Derek Jeter turning into an option quarterback to save Game 3, and perhaps the Division Series, for the Yankees. “Clutch” can also be understood in terms of anything Curt Schilling (2-0, 18 IP, 3 ER, 9 H) has done with a baseball in the last week. Significant because “being clutch” is a necessary ingredient to postseason success...
...first Harvard president to be tested by a crisis larger than higher education. University President James B. Conant ’14 spent much of his time in Washington during World War II, and Derek C. Bok governed a troubled campus during the conflict in Vietnam...
Former President Derek C. Bok views Lowell’s attempt to establish a Jewish quota as an aberration in Harvard’s history, calling it “one unfortunate venture that got nowhere...