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...history, the shot is real. The only Ivy League player taken in this year’s draft—Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie—was chosen by the Giants in the fourth round.And that other fullback currently on the roster? It’s Jim Finn, a Penn graduate who was “Mr. Irrelevant,” the very last player taken in the draft, in 1999.“I think I’ll fit in pretty well,” Berg said.His invitation means that three of the six Harvard players who signed...
Then a funny thing happened in the second game. Quakers rookie Jim Birmingham threw seven innings of no-hit ball and the team’s leadoff hitter spanked a Shawn Haviland curveball for a three-run dinger to give Penn, which had finished 7-13 in the Ivies for two years running, the split. Haviland, the staff ace and league’s Pitcher of the Year in 2006, allowed twice as many earned runs in that game (six) as he had in all five of his Ivy starts the year before combined...
...veteran out there who doesn't know that the military health-care system was a mess long before Bush became President. The blame for Walter Reed must rest primarily on the shoulders of the Army, whose policy of hiding problems rather than correcting them finally caught up with it. Jim Kindred, Chief Warrant Officer Four Army National Guard (ret.), Corinth, Mississippi...
...veteran out there who doesn't know that the military health-care system was a mess long before Bush became President. The blame for Walter Reed must rest primarily on the shoulders of the Army, whose policy of hiding problems rather than correcting them finally caught up with it. Jim Kindred, Chief Warrant Officer Four Army National Guard (ret.), CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI...
...Global Warming—named in the spirit of bipartisanship, no doubt—gave it this benediction: “The science of global warming and its impact is overwhelming and unequivocal.” But then last Wednesday at the committee’s inaugural meeting, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the ranking Republican, countered: “One area where there is no scientific consensus…is the effects of climate change.” Common ground is scarce indeed...