Word: hanks
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Freshman Ilan Oren, playing at No. 3, took a 2-1 lead into his fourth game against Hank Alexander, in which Oren jumped out to a 3-0 lead. But Alexander battled back and pulled ahead 4-3 before five straight points from Oren gave the Harvard rookie a commanding advantage...
...play me you have to be an aggressive, rugged-type person at the ballpark. But I'm pretty easygoing when I'm out of the spikes. I had to play the way I did because I was short on talent. Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents...
...Woori Financial, recently announced rescue plans for their stricken card units. A chain of collapses is unlikely. But to some observers, the situation is disturbingly like the near meltdown of South Korea's financial system in the late 1990s. "The scale [of card-company losses] is not insubstantial," says Hank Morris, an analyst with IRC Consulting in Seoul. "You're talking about real money here...
...only is Barry Bonds this season’s MVP, but he might be more valuable to this year’s Giants team than any other player in the history of baseball has been to their team. Babe Ruth always had loads of talent to rely on. Hank Aaron had Eddie Matthews. Pete Rose had Bench, Perez, Foster, etc. But Bonds has got diddley squat. He’s doing it all himself. Where’s Jeff Kent now? I thought so—without Bonds, he’s merely a good player...
...American plays that are increasingly shoving aside Shakespeare and Stoppard on the West End (often with big-name U.S. stars in the cast) seem to be reveling in the worst of the U.S. In the current hit revival of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Matthew Perry and Hank Azaria leave all their charm at passport control as they add an extra layer of bile to Mamet's caustic portrait of the battle of the sexes in the Midwestern heartland...