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...hand but with two cossacks bearing down on him was said to be facing a "fielder's choice." Third base has been known as the "hot corner" since the Minsk-Pinsk World Series of 1937, when a Pinsk third-base coach, who happened to double as a political-education instructor, peppered the Minsk third baseman with probing theoretical questions. Tragically, this led to the only fatality in big-time lapta. During the seventh game of the series, after uttering the ill-advised suggestion "Stick it in your ear, Comrade Coach," the luckless Minsk third baseman was dragged from the Cosmodome...
Playwright August Strindberg defined the family as an institution where self- respect is smothered. A hundred years later Crooked Hearts provides abundant evidence for the prosecution. The Warrens are a Sunbelt household who make failure a way of life. The father, Edward, plummets from history teacher to instructor in driver's ed. When one of his sons drops out of college, that seems reason enough to get out the unseasonable Christmas lights and have a party. The other two boys soon grow uncomfortable in the competitive world, and a sister concludes that her parents and siblings are "like . . . a family...
Buckner always reminded me and my brother of the cartoon character Asterix, with his bushy mustache, but then again Jerry Remy did too. Is it better to be fired outright than to disappear mysteriously like Remy did? Remy was in new Britain last summer, a hitting instructor for the Double-A Britsox. Not even Pawtucket...
When North's tour of duty was over, he returned to Quantico to teach tactics. As an instructor, North was something of a hot dog: he wore camouflage to class, and once surprised his students by jumping on a desk and opening fire with an M16 loaded with blanks. North justified his histrionics by saying that his men must be prepared for anything. "If you screw up, you die," he told them...
...Getting this fellowship has made a big difference in my career," said future fellow Dr. Ruth M. Ruprecht, a Harvard Medical School instructor who will spend next year researching cures forleukemia. "It's a major plus to be able toconcentrate on doing research rather than lookingfor sources of funding," she said...