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...Wolf Lake" is a supernatural creeper about a town where there are mysterious doings between wolves and some of the citizens (who may be one and the same). Despite the show's Pacific Northwest location, Native American spiritual angle and central character (Lou Diamond Phillips) who's brought in from out of town to investigate the goings-on, there is apparently a CBS corporate memo forbidding its employees to mention the title "Twin Peaks" in connection with it. (It also stars Tim Matheson, "The West Wing"'s vice president, if that helps you handicap the odds of Josiah Bartlet...
Throughout each game, unbridled enthusiasm emanated from the clubhouse. It's the sort of thing that would make the stereotypical balding, chaw-using, reticent baseball men we see in the movies spin in their graves. In baseball, after all, sitting quietly in the dugout in deep contemplation of the diamond and its secrets while chewing gum can be an appropriate reaction to a three-run homer. You stop actively cheering once you take off your little league jersey for the last time. Exuberance and professionalism aren't compatible...
PSLM is sitting in against inequality. Inequality that’s big, that’s global, that affects Domna as much as it affects the garment workers in Indonesia, the diamond miners in South Africa and the students at Harvard. PSLM has made inequality easy for us to understand. A living wage, a floor below which no one should sink. A standard of living. Harvard’s direct responsibility to those it employs. Harvard’s ability to make up the difference...
...yesterday reaffirmed his promise-at least on the diamond. When asked after the game whether Wahlberg would figure into next season’s rotation, Walsh didn’t hesitate...
...other side of the diamond, Dartmouth comes into this weekend sporting a 4-2 home record this season and a 14-2 mark over the past two years. The Big Green split a doubleheader against Vermont on Tuesday after splitting one with Yale and then sweeping another against Brown over the weekend. This performance last week helped Dartmouth set team records for Ivy League wins and doubleheader sweeps...