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More than 1,100 baseball fans, many in jerseys and caps, rubbed elbows with semioticians, psychobiographers and a smattering of baseball old-timers. They listened as Leonard Cassuto of Fordham University's English department deconstructed Ruth and "the politics of greatness." "Is baseball's canon-making procedure subjective?" Cassuto wondered. "Or does the statistically measurable quality of baseball make it possible to prove or measure Ruth's greatness?" Not surprisingly, there were many adherents to the latter proposition. William Jenkinson, a self-described investigative historian, attempted to quantify Ruth's home-run prowess, dropping such impressive phrases as "drag coefficient...
Boston College on April 23 should prove to be the lightweight's stiffest competition before it faces reigning national champions Fordham at the Eastern Sprints...
...traditional measures, America is doing well. Unemployment is the lowest in five years, the economy is growing, and crime has eased somewhat. But underneath that surface is the accumulated wreckage of political paralysis, endemic violence, disintegrating families, two decades of wage stagnation and cultural vertigo. Marc Miringoff, director of Fordham University's Institute for Innovation in Social Policy, maintains an index of social health that factors in 16 social problems ranging from child abuse to the number of Americans on food stamps. In 1970, the index's first year, it stood at 73.8 out of a utopian...
...invitational featured three teams: Boston College, Fordham and LaSalle. In the first round on Saturday, Harvard went up against Boston College and Fordham went up against LaSalle...
LaSalle was also victorious in round one, beating Fordham to advance to the winners' game against the Crimson on Sunday...