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...gets by more on guile than God-given talent, posts the second best earned- run average in the American Association while gamely stifling his disappointment as many of his younger teammates are called up by the Montreal Expos. The Expos are not heartless: they want Fireovid to trade his glove for a clipboard as a minor-league pitching coach. But Fireovid cannot let go of his dream. As he admits in August, "Earlier in the season . . . I was positive I'd be retiring from baseball. Now I'm not so sure. I'm pitching as well or better than...
Richards' blitz is decidedly populist. Her targets are special interests that have grown accustomed to kid-glove treatment from government. She stunned the chemical industry by forcing a two-year moratorium on the construction of new hazardous-waste sites and the expansion of existing ones and by proposing to set up an environmental SWAT team to enforce regulations that have long been ignored. She fired the entire top echelon of the corporation-minded commerce department and refocused the agency on small-business development and job training. She smacked the insurance industry by temporarily blocking a 26% increase in auto premiums...
Roger Angell, baseball commentator for The New Yorker and author of numerous odes to the men of the bat and glove, once observed that "baseball seems to have been invented solely for the purpose of explaining all other things in life...
Harvard goaltender Gillian D'Souza was saved by the post on NU's best opportunity of the night. The senior goalie made a glove save on a hard shot which dribbled out of the webbing of her glove and towards the net. The post slowed the puck, however, and D'Souza prevented a rebound...
...play in the scoreless first period, Eagle's wing Bill Guerin controlled the puck in front of an otherwise wide open Northeastern net with only Cole to stop him. Guerin let loose a blistering wrist-shot and Cole snagged the shot with a swat of the glove...