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...philosophy of William James or the tenets of Java programming language while my classmates blew off steam in exotic locales—my studying wasn’t of that conventional academic type. What I devoted much of the precious break to was preparing for my annual Rotisserie baseball draft, an event that I had been anticipating ever since the Chicago White Sox nailed down the last out in their shocking championship run last October, ushering in the cold, depressing vacuum of four months without baseball...
...Walt and Mearsheimer quote, Frankel is writing of his prior experiences as the Times’ editorial page editor, a position entirely separate from the paper’s news operations. In the period of Frankel’s life to which the quote refers, his job was to draft opinion pieces...
...early Crimson years, Foote was a sports writer, reporting on lightweight crew, before becoming managing editor his senior year. As a Quaker, his pacifist beliefs led him to serve two prison sentences during World War II. The first indictment came in 1943, when his conscientious objector status during a draft led to a conviction for violating the Selective Service Act. In 1945, he spent a year in a federal penitentiary for similar charges until he was pardoned by President Truman. He then went to the University of Pennsylvania Law School to further pursue his beliefs in criminal justice reform...
...yesterday, after a committee newcomer proposed a last-minute motion to allot an additional $50,000 to each of the city’s elementary schools. Although the motion introduced by first-term committee member Luc Schuster failed by a 5-2 vote, it raised concerns about the budget drafting process, complicating yesterday’s final vote on the $125 million school budget. Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 originally proposed a similar motion late last month, recommending that an extra $75,000 go to each elementary school. “Resources have not shifted directly...
Welch, a second-round draft pick in 2001, was voted a starter in the AHL All-Star game this January, and he and Lannon are a combined + 26 on the season. And the latter, an eighth-round pick in 2002, was just named the team’s 2005-2006 Man of the Year for his contributions to the northeastern Pennsylvanian community, including his “adoption” of a second-grade class...