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This would be a much easier concept to pin down if all major leaguers were 6’7 and carved out of stone—but this is not the case. To be completely honest, most of these players truly look like regular guys, with five fingers a hand, five toes a foot (except for Antonio Alfonseca of the Texas Rangers, who was born with twelve toes and twelve fingers). Of course there are some exceptions to the rule (see a chemically altered Barry Bonds...
...Massachusetts home. He was 87. Thurston joined the HBS faculty in 1958 after receiving his doctorate in business administration at the school. As a faculty member, Thurston taught in both the MBA and Executive Education programs while also serving in administrative roles. Colleagues remembered Thurston last week as honest and warm. “He was a native of Maine...and it seemed to me he personified the good traits that I associated with ‘Mainiacs’—directness, no nonsense,” said colleague and close friend Charles M. Williams...
Fakery is unbecoming to an artist. Indeed, counterfeiting another's creativity is anathema to any honest painter or writer. With his previous novel, Peter Carey took that idea and gave it a macabre twist. In My Life as a Fake, he reimagined Australia's infamous Ern Malley affair - the 1944 literary hoax played by antimodernists Harold Stewart and James McAuley, who posed as a dead working-class poetic "genius" - by bringing a fabricated identity to life to haunt its creator. The novel's sprawling narrative was as gin-soaked and overripe as its Kuala Lumpur setting, but Carey's theme...
...does he spend so much time returning strays? So his counterparts in Mexico will return the favor because some of his cattle amble across the border through the same holes. "The whole reason that I started doing this for the Mexican ranchers was to show 'em, 'Yeah, I'm honest. I'm going to give you yours back, so you give me mine.' And it's worked. But the whole story is that I've spent money on long-distance and talked to everybody from the Boundary Commission to USDA to border patrol to customs and everybody else...
...With the Orange coalition in tatters, the rifts are now being played out at the ballot box, where Tymoshenko's eponymous party came in second behind Yanukovych. The new parliament turns out to be as split as society is - which, among many other things, is a proof of an honest and fair election. Since no single party, including the big winner Yanukovych, has the majority, a coalition government, with all the accompanying horse trading and compromises, will likely be formed...