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Beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday, the readers each recited 15-minute passages, drawing on authors as diverse as Homer and Studs Terkel. Beatrice Hawley, who conceived of the program last year, said the group chose to hold the readings on Veterans' Day because "this used to be a time for thinking and reflecting about the costs...
Students hopelessly behind in required reading for their classes have long relied on Cliffs Notes, synopses of great books ranging from Homer to Hemingway. In 80 to 100 pages, the notes neatly summarize dramatic highlights and offer concise literary analysis geared to the questions that might appear on exams...
...designated hitter who bats ninth (.200) is at least as funny as a cleanup batter who hits .228 (Padres Third Baseman Graig Nettles). However, on an impulse, Williams decided to upgrade Bevacqua to the sixth slot for Game 2, and his three hits included a three-run homer, just his second of the year. "I'll do anything to get in the papers," he had proved before, but never so conventionally. (Larry Herndon, the silent Tiger who had an equally telling homer the day before, does anything to stay out of them.) After blowing kisses around the bases, Bevacqua...
Castillo, who had only four home runs during the season, hit a two-run homer as Detroit scored four times in the second inning with the help of three walks, two off starter Tim Lollar and another off reliever Greg Booker...
Bevacqua's homer with one out in the fifth inning erased a 3-2 Detroit lead--the score by which the Tigers won Game One--and Hawkins and Lefferts pitched 8 1/3 innings of two-hit, no-walk, scoreless relief...