Word: hanks
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...1960s, Japanese professional baseball was in its heyday. It had produced, arguably, its best squad ever - the proud Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, who were then in the process of winning nine consecutive Japan Championships. The team was powered by Sadaharu Oh, the man who would go on to break Hank Aaron's lifetime home-run record, and its charismatic, clutch-hitting third baseman Shigeo Nagashima. Los Angeles Dodger owner Walter O'Malley was so impressed with Nagashima that he tried to buy his contract, but the Giants' aging founder Matsutaro Shoriki turned the offer down flat. The quality of Japanese baseball...
This is a tough business to take online, and it will need more than a few dazzling new services to succeed. No one knows that better than Napster CEO Hank Barry, who is still earnestly trying to fashion a legal compromise that will keep his company in the game (just like MP3.com which is still alive after losing millions in lawsuits to record labels). Along with Henley and Morissette, Barry tried to sell the Senate on compulsory licenses--giving websites the same status as radio stations, which pay royalty fees for playing music. Says Barry: "It's government intervention...
...Jeffrey Tambor, who played Larry Sanders sidekick Hank Kingsley, is there looking tan and engaged. He proudly introduces a beautiful Polish girl as his fiancée. He has shaved off his trademark moustache, perhaps because his semi-bald-head-and-moustache look has been stolen by that strange quasi-therapist who crops up daily on "Oprah...
Roughly half of Princeton's seminars are funced by endowments and departments are reimbursed for the professor's teaching time out of those funds, Howard "Hank" N. Dobin, co-director of the freshman seminar program and associate dean of the college notes...
DIED. EDDIE MATHEWS, 69, Milwaukee Braves' Hall of Fame third baseman and lefty hitter who racked up 512 home runs; of pneumonia; in San Diego. Mathews and fellow Brave Hank Aaron hit 863 home runs combined, the most of any two teammates in history...