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...novel set in London in 1979, during the strikebound Winter of Discontent. As recounted by Chris years later, it's an aching tale of love and loss in which the protagonists embody the profound but fragile relationships strangers can build and the pain of intimacy corrupted. "A previous draft was about sexual obsession, and it left a rather bad taste in the mouth," says De Bernières, who grew up in Surrey, just south of London, and now lives on a farm in Norfolk on England's east coast. "I rewrote it as a love story...
...Donnell Field was synonymous with inflated ERAs and a tired bullpen.The Harvard baseball team averaged nearly seven runs per game that season—the last time the Crimson won the Ivy League Championship—behind a powerful lineup stocked with the likes of future draft picks Zak Farkes ’06 and Steffan Wilson ’07 and hard-hitting mashers Schuyler Mann ’05 and Josh Klimkiewicz ’06.But graduation and the minor leagues beckoned Harvard’s big bats, and the Crimson began losing its power hitters faster than...
...turns his sights toward becoming one. Not known as a velocity pitcher, his fastball reached 90 miles per hour—an important benchmark for collegiate starters—on Scout Day last October. Haviland admits that he may have allowed thoughts of scouts and the Major League Baseball draft to become a distraction last year, but all signs point to him keeping his focus on the mound in 2008. “I don’t think he’s going to let scouts watching him or this being his last year...
...Because of the draft, the embrace of the Ivory Tower was more difficult in the 1960s and 1970s, Skocpol said...
...funny" name. All too many voters don't get beyond first impressions, but it's not impossible. In 1992 the first thing most Americans learned about Bill Clinton was that he'd been shagging a lounge singer named Gennifer Flowers. The second was that he'd avoided the military draft during Vietnam. But Clinton-a politician as extraordinary as Obama-managed to survive and, intermittently, prosper...