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Assuming he agrees to terms with Colorado, Crockett will be the second Harvard pitcher in as many years to sign with a major league organization. John Birtwell ’01, the 1999 Ivy Pitcher of the Year, was drafted by the Detroit Tigers last year and spent last summer pitching for their New York-Penn League affiliate...
Sacks, originally from South Africa (a heritage that colors much of his poetry), first came to the United States as an exchange student in Detroit when he was 17. Intending to become a physician, Sacks developed his love of poetry as an undergraduate at Princeton in the early 70s, and went on to study at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and take a doctorate at Yale in English. He published his first collection of poems, In These Mountains, in the same year, 1986, as he published his first major scholarly endeavor, The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser...
Boston separates itself as the best sports city from New York, Chicago, Detroit and other sports havens because of the hopelessness of its teams. The Celtics had a dynasty from Bob Cousy to Larry Bird, but recently the Celts have consistently been at the bottom of the NBA standings. Before this season, the Patriots had never won a Super Bowl. The Bruins last won the Stanley Cup in 1972. The Red Sox, of course, haven’t won since...
...lifted by a 24 percent gain in sales of pickups, SUVs and minivans and suddenly the king of Detroit again, estimated that the industry's total U.S. sales would be up about 2.5 percent for the month. (Toyota, Honda and Volkswagen also posted inched-up U.S. sales numbers Wednesday.) That puts the industry on an annual U.S. sales pace of some 18 million vehicles, far stronger than originally estimated and enough - if they can keep it up - for carmakers to log one of the best U.S. sales years in history...
...strong auto sector can do plenty for jobs, incidental consumption and the broader economy - hence all the good feeling among investors. But car buyers had better come through - and keep buying those high-margin trucks, SUVs and minivans no matter what gas prices do this summer - or else Detroit and Wall Street both stand to lose a pretty...