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...asylum, Irabu was welcomed by his new teammates. "Hey, what's up, man?" third baseman Charlie Hayes said upon meeting Irabu. "He's a big old boy," said Cecil Fielder, the Yankees' gargantuan slugger. Indeed, Irabu is 6 ft. 3 in. and 240 lbs., wears a size 52 jacket and pants with a 40-in. waist. In his monthlong tour of the minors, where he made six starts, Irabu impressed his Yankee escorts with his fastball (high 90s), fork ball (high 80s) and fork. "He ate everything," said Arthur Richman, the 72-year-old club executive who accompanied Irabu...
...large classes most responsible for yanking down the ranking were Core classes, of which about 80 percent enrolled more than 50 students, according to a senior administrator. Some Cores were gargantuan--Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics" initially enrolled 964 students the second semester and "Literature and Arts C-37: The Bible and Its Interpreters" enrolled 953 students...
...your professor from the third balcony of Sanders theater is beyond me. But most importantly you miss the reason lecture classes are so large: the number of core classes is at a 10-year low. This swells the number of students in all the decent core classes to gargantuan sizes. Dean Lewis and others might wonder why our school is number three in the rankings when it is perfectly obvious: Harvard's classes are too large...
...making their sweet piercing music, enjoying decent careers and, every couple of years, releasing a CD that enriches the pop-music vocabulary. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin are close to the best there is in today's bounty of singer-songwriters. But hovering above them, like a gargantuan nightmare kid sister, is the brutal fact of Alanis Morissette, whose primal whining has moved 15 million copies of her first album. It must be a perplexity for Carpenter, whose songs have cannier pop hooks, and for Colvin, whose angst-filled anthems predated and surpassed Morissette's--though...
While the offensive unit has undoubtedly been overshadowed by the gargantuan efforts of the defense, it has been quietly productive...