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...midnight at the top ten karaoke bar in Banda Aceh, and the portly drunkard everyone respectfully calls "Commander" is on the mike. "Indonesia," he wails between gulps of Guinness. "You are the red of my blood, the white of my bone." His bleary rendition wins huge applause from the bar's other customers, all Indonesian soldiers deployed in the capital of war-torn Aceh province. "I love that song," slurs the Commander, who is actually an army major. "It makes me feel so patriotic...
Ronz retired the side in order in both the sixth and seventh innings. Five of the six outs came by strikeout. After giving up a lead off single to junior second baseman Mike Chernoff and a fielder’s choice to sophomore third baseman Steve Young, Walsh called for his closer...
...race to be Pennsylvania's next governor is considered one of the key match-ups of the 2002 elections. State Attorney General Mike Fisher is the unopposed Republican choice. But he's considered an underdog to both Democratic candidates, Bob Casey Jr. and Ed Rendell. The two Democrats are better known. Casey is the son of a former governor and has the support of upstate blue-collar Democrats. He's pro-labor and pro-life. Ed Rendell is the pragmatic former Philadelphia mayor who appeals to the state's New Democrats and independents. These two candidates have been locked...
...detractors, these are all at least debatable criticisms. And while West certainly isn’t unique among Harvard professors for his professional slumming (ask Marge Garber, fresh off a book about sex and real estate, or Alan Dershowitz, who took time off to defend O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson), his relentless pursuit of celebrity and insatiable appetite for publicity sets him apart from the field—look at Friends of Cornel like P. Diddy and Mumia Abu-Jamal. That Summers chose to begin cleaning house with West might have been ham-handed and politically inept, but it wasn?...
...Field bleachers on Wednesday, but he has been a quietly effective Sunday starter for the Crimson this year. Though he generally won’t last beyond five or six innings, he can give way to the suddenly rejuvenated bullpen of juniors Kenon Ronz and Barry Wahlberg and senior Mike Dryden. Hendricks, if healthy, can also get the Crimson at least that...