Word: fellows
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...recalls, "I couldn't hit worth a damn." That is, not until he switched to batting lefthanded. After studying 23 varsity baseball players at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Portal thinks he knows why. ; In last week's New England Journal of Medicine, Portal and fellow Researcher Paul Romano reported that it's mostly a matter of eye-hand dominance. The better pitchers -- and poorer hitters -- tend to have a dominant, or favored, eye and hand on the same side. But good hitters have crossed dominance: the preferred eye and hand are on opposite sides. Confusing? Not really...
Lurie, however, tips her hand, perhaps too early in the book, in the direction of heterosexual detente. The ex-husband, now remarried, is sketched as a decent fellow. Polly's closest friend, a cozy, catlike lesbian named Jeanne, shows herself, in the book's best characterization, to be malicious and totally self-absorbed. Most important, Polly's research, which she and her friends assume will prove that Painter Jones was abused and underrated by the men in her life, goes awkwardly sour. It turns out that Jones was indeed a genius but that she was far harder on men than...
...meter free by an impressive three-tenths of a second, to 48.42. Earlier, after setting a new American record for the 200- meter free in the first day's prelims, Biondi had faded in the final and was beaten by a tick by Troy Dalbey, a largish blond fellow who looks like Actor William Hurt. No matter; Biondi was the meet's dominant swimmer. He finished the week with two wins and two seconds, thus qualifying for four individual events and at least two relays. Evans, as she was supposed to do, wore out the water with two more wins...
...senior took the final steps to end sexism in the final clubs, filing a descrimination complaint with the state against the Fly Club. Fellow students supported her cause, creating Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT) to help fund and carry on the suit after she graduated...
...senior took the final steps to end sexism in the finals clubs, filing a discrimination complaint with the state against the Fly Club. Fellow students supported her cause, creating Stop Witholding Access Today (SWAT) to help fund and carry on the suit when she graduates...