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...aimlessly wandering in that large city across the river that you told all your neighbors back home was one reason why you came to Harvard in the first place. Scalp tickets outside of Fenway and seat-hop to the fourth row behind the visiting team’s dugout. Go visit the glass flowers that your mom always harasses you about seeing. Go be corny and touristy and take a Swan boat ride in the Public Gardens. If you took the Michael Bolton advice, this cannot be too corny of a suggestion...
...commit to the region before the election, and what their precise role should be. For villagers, the Katanga campaign has been calamitous. Flying low over Lake Upemba in northern Katanga in mid-March, hundreds of people could be seen encamped on slivers of dry land in the water, with dugout canoes as their only link to the world. Thousands of others have wandered, sometimes for weeks, across the roadless landscape of forests and waterfalls, finally staggering nearly starved into small towns. There, they tell of Mai Mai fighters placing victims' heads on sticks to proclaim control; of ravenous government soldiers...
...DUGOUT BOOK-CLUB PICK...
...years old and long forgotten by most, Schourek knows that there are those who will always remember him. Crazy fanatics like myself. He finishes the game 4-for-5, his team wins, and as my teammates smoke post-game cigarettes and leave the field, I sit alone in the dugout and take in the moment...
With a 66-77 career record and a 4.59 ERA, Schourek was a journeyman who played on five teams, endured four elbow operations, and was out of organized baseball by age 32—and so the fact that he has wound up in the opposing dugout of a recreational league in Northern Virgina isn’t causing too many heads to turn...