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...twice orphaned two-year-old struts confidently across the sparse grass and hisses at a companion. He is a white goose, one of three species to live in the small green area just downstream of the Boston University bridge—a habitat that has been intentionally destroyed, LaTrémouille says, by local development programs attempting to clear the nesting area. He blames them for what he believes has been the systematic killing of the white geese since...
That set up the meeting with Princeton on Pauly’s home grass. Harvard lost the first game on two errors by freshman third baseman Josh Klimkiewicz, which yielded three unearned runs in a 5-2 defeat. But it won game two on Klimkiewicz?...
...time claims a ballplayer, because the game is predicated on the suspension of ordinary temporality. "Uniquely among team sports, baseball proceeds outside of time," Roger Kahn observes in his new book October Men (Harcourt; 382 pages). "There is no clock." But the air of eternity that lingers over the grass only shows up the ephemerality of those who play on it--baseball is not a sport of the gods, it's a sport of mortals, and ballplayers are even more human than other athletes. They tend to be of average size and weight, unlike the Star Wars cantina of humanoids...
...week Wal-Mart said it will suspend sales of several men's magazines, including Maxim, FHM and Stuff (see Essay). Officially, the retailing giant pulled the plug after "customers around the country" complained that the boobs-and-booze monthlies made them "uncomfortable." In fact, the move came after a grass-roots campaign orchestrated largely by a mutual-fund manager...
Salsgiver made his pitches dance all over the place yesterday. Alternating between two fastballs, a curve and a sinker, Salsgiver featured plenty of movement—hardly the frozen ropes he’s used to uncorking from the outfield grass. Salsgiver threw all the harder from close range, too, clocking out at 91 mph according to one gun. He retired the side in order on seven pitches in the seventh and set down the first two batters of the eighth before being lifted for senior Ryan Tsujikawa...