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...well-timed double steal. HARVARD 4, PENN 2Freshman Max Perlman threw a complete-game four-hitter in his first career Ivy League start, earning the victory as the Crimson came from behind to win, 4-2.Perlman thrived by staying down in the strike zone, producing an excellent 12-3 ground ball-fly ball ratio, including three rollers that the Harvard middle infield turned into double plays. “A little adrenaline around the beginning of the game, but I settled down and did pretty well,” Perlman said. “I didn’t have...
When Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott told the New York Times earlier this week that he was finished trying to build stores in New York City, one of his aides was quick to point out that he was only referring to Manhattan, where ground-floor space rents for about $500 a square foot, and not the city's other four boroughs. But when I talked to Scott the next day, he assured me that he said what he meant. The whole joint. He also pointed out that he was only one vote on Wal-Mart's real estate committee...
...ethic of connectedness is at the core of the New American Story. It is the common ground of our political history, and it can support a new politics that is both inspiring and deeply practical. As Americans, we are not red or blue; we are red, white and blue. All Americans want the same basic things: a good job at good pay, affordable health insurance for themselves and their families, quality education for their children, economic security in old age. We can achieve all of this. In our country's past, we rose to greater challenges: we ended slavery...
...bunkers and fortified firing positions built over a six-year period in sealed-off valleys and hilltops throughout south Lebanon was key to Hizballah's ability to survive Israel's onslaught during last summer's month-long war. Israeli soldiers spoke of Hizballah fighters bursting out of the ground to loose off a rocket-propelled grenade before disappearing into the earth again. Israeli air crews hunted, often in vain, for the sources of Katyusha rocket fire, sometimes emanating from within a few hundred yards of the border. One bunker complex discovered and dynamited by Israeli troops a week after...
...narrow steel-lined shaft below unbroken by the bright sunlight. It had taken seven months of searching to finally discover one of the underground bunkers that had enabled Hizballah to fire thousands of rockets into northern Israel last summer even under the pounding of Israeli air and ground operations. But any sense of exhilaration at the achievement was dampened by the nagging anxiety of claustrophobia...