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...unnecessary torture at that. The drawn-out spring training may have served a legitimate purpose at one time, but these days do pitchers and catchers really need six weeks, and the position players five weeks or so, to get into shape? No way. First, if they're truly earning their millions, players will be lifting weights and whacking balls all off-season. "These guys don't sell suits in the winter anymore," notes Joe Sheehan, a senior writer at Baseball Prospectus. Plus, why should, say, the NBA have only a month-long preseason, while baseball stretches it out another half...
...Chinese New Year by eating dumplings with miners 2,300 feet underground. When he visited their homes and families, Wen called for improvements in mine safety. Wen has stayed involved in the issue, regularly expressing concern for miners and their families and once tearfully instructing officials to learn "lessons drawn in blood." Indeed, within days of the Zuoyun accident, the Premier met with rescuers and called for a thorough investigation, noting that there was evidence of collusion between local officials and mine owners to cover up the tragedy. Officials at the company running the Zuoyun mine could not be reached...
Being called a fag hag—even when it is primarily by my gay friends—seems to imply that when searching for the next victim of my friendship, I sniff out gays. Yet I’m not an insect drawn to the homosexual flame. Women with gay friends often get lumped together as some strange breed, but the phenomenon is actually quite simple. Just like meeting politicos though a roommate in the College Democrats, having one friend in the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) will get you in with...
...From Thayer, Schlesinger moved on to Adams House, drawn by the dormitory’s private pool and kitchen. He lived with his freshman-year roommate on the top floor of C-entry way, enjoying the tweedy environs and “comely” waitresses who worked in the dining hall...
...Schlesinger writes that he grew bored by his junior year, only drawn out of his doldrums by his History and Literature thesis on the New England Transcendentalist Orestes A. Brownson...