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More scouts are expected as the April 25 season opener approaches, and more of the job seekers will descend upon Homestead as clubs pass on players they would have ordinarily kept. Baseball may be back, but it's not baseball as usual. Last week the Montreal Expos, who had the best team-and smallest payroll-in baseball when the strike hit on Aug. 12, virtually gave away centerfielder Marquis Grissom, reliever John Wetteland and starter Ken Hill because management didn't want to pay them...
Perhaps his sweet tooth does not extend to the syrupy script. Writer and director Leven, a psychotherapist who spent time on the Harvard faculty, was not expecting this acting trinity to descend upon his humble screenplay and is simply unprepared to handle such an awesome burden on his first stint as a director...
...late great Andy Warhol once said, "In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." But within that short space of time, so much can happen. What arrives with an air of mystery soon becomes the talk of the town, only to descend into overkill in a matter of minutes. Here we have elucidated the trajectory of fame for a few of the people and things we have been hearing about lately. Yet even as we type, the moments tick away. Ah, the flash in the proverbial...
...brother, carrying a box of 27 smart cards, each of which is loaded up with secret numbers that makes it worth a million Simoleons. I go over and look out the skybox window: 27 Americans are congregated down on the 50-yard line, waiting for their mathematical manna to descend from heaven. They are just the demographic cross section that my brother was hoping for. You'd never guess they were all secretly citizens of the First Distributed Republic...
When Gay W. Seidman '78 was elected the first female president of The Harvard Crimson in 1977, she didn't expect hundreds of reporters to descend onto 14 Plympton Street. Yet within days of the announcement, she found herself the object of national media attention, with featured stories in the New York Times, Boston Globe and on most national TV networks...