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Martin’s performance called to mind Harvey Haddix, a good but unexceptional National League hurler, who one day in 1959 turned in arguably the greatest pitching performance in baseball history, twirling 12 perfect innings—36 up, 36 down—before dropping the decision, 1-0, in the 13th. Few remember a loser, and Haddix’s remarkable afternoon has been largely consigned to the margins of baseball lore. Martin’s heroics may end up similarly and unjustifiably overlooked...
...Pentagon, took down its third major Army official Monday in the wake of the Walter Reed scandal. Army Surgeon General Kevin Kiley, who had run the Army's pre-eminent hospital from 2002 to 2004, has submitted his resignation, the Army announced. Following the firing of Army Secretary Francis Harvey and Walter Reed commander Major General George Weightman, Army officials are talking of new leadership to fix the care given to wounded outpatients at Walter Reed...
...secretary of defense, and the new kind of leadership he has brought to the Pentagon. "I don't have very much patience for people that don't step up to the plate in terms of addressing problems that are under their responsibility," Gates said shortly before he ordered Harvey to submit his resignation papers...
...Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 explained in a Wall Street Journal editorial last year, "the dominant practice at Harvard now is choice...
OUSTED. Francis Harvey, 63, U.S. Army Secretary; following the disclosure of embarrassingly poor conditions for war wounded at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center; in Washington. The hospital's commander, Major General George Weightman, was also dismissed...