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...away from Northeastern with diving stops. But it was a play that Rivera didn't make that put Northeastern on the scoreboard. Bill O'Leary drew a two-out walk, and Kevin Guiney singled him to second. Dan Spotts grounded to Rivera, whose throw to Farrell was in the dirt. Paul DiPillo's infield single scored the Husky...
...always, Appelfeld's style is affectingly spare. His fictional victim is a little East European girl, born to be despised. Ugly and slow to learn, Tzili is neglected and abused by her large, impoverished Jewish family. In infancy she is left alone to play in the dirt outdoors. In childhood she becomes the butt of her Christian schoolmates. As the Nazis approach, Tzili is abandoned by her parents. She seeks shelter among the peasants in the district, claiming to be the daughter of the local Gentile whore. But if she is spared deportation as a Jew, she is execrated...
Seaver is perched on the edge of a training table in St. Petersburg, Fla., after pitching five innings against Toronto, allowing four runs in the second inning but none in the others. There is that signature streak of dirt on Seaver's pant leg below his right knee, residue from the relentless scraping of an unchanging delivery. He has not changed so much at that. Most young throwers get to the major leagues with "good stuff' and only fall back on pitching later. But Seaver could always pitch...
Didion is more consistently effective when she puts faces with the numbers of the dead. The face of one corpse has been carved to look like a cross. Others have had their mouths filled with dirt or their own genitals. There are recountings of the killings of American Agricultural Advisers Mark Pearlman and Michael Hammer in the dining room of the Hotel Sheraton, the same place where Free lance Writer John Sullivan was last seen alive. She reminds us of the four North American churchwomen who were murdered in 1980, the 50 students killed when government troops attacked the National...
Ever since he beheld her curly head in an Independence, Mo., Sunday school one morning in 1890, when he was six and she was five, Harry Truman remained devoted to his beloved Bess. As a young dirt farmer in nearby Grandview, he courted her by mail, weaving words of affection amid tales of work. Over the years his work changed, but the love letters remained a constant, spinning a chronicle of changing times and undying values...