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...After his last major league stint with the Dodgers in 2003, Henderson couldn't give up the sport. He went to play for the minor league Newark Bears in an attempt to prove that he was still a viable player. He then played for the even more minor San Diego Surf Dawgs, which, a team publicist admitted to The New Yorker was often assumed to be a girl's softball team...
...novels and those of other crime writers, incl. Jim Thompson's The Grifters (Oscar nomination) and Patricia Highsmith's Ripley Under Ground. He knew the difference in the two crafts: "If I write a novel, I'm a god. If I write a screenplay, I'm a minor deity." Westlake died of a heart attack New Year's Eve while on a rare vacation, in Mexico...
...frail signs appeared on Wednesday that an end to fighting that has left nearly 700 Palestinians dead may be near. Although details remain hazy about the Franco-Egyptian peace proposal that's serving as the basis of a possible truce, the initiative appears to have helped inspire Wednesday's minor miracle of a three-hour cease-fire in Gaza to allow aid workers access to what is being described as a humanitarian calamity there...
...being at true risk - sharing food, having messy hands. There are many reactions that occur from those kinds of exposures," he says. "I think that having peanut-free preschools is a totally reasonable, justifiable thing to do." For children in the fourth or fifth grade, however, he says minor precautions like specialized seating arrangements in the cafeteria are probably unnecessary...
...We’ll be specifying our training,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said. “We’ll look at ‘how does this person get better and what do they need to work on?’”With minor adjustments, the Crimson can anticipate bolstering the win column this spring.LONESTAR DUALSThree Harvard grapplers went undefeated and Caputo (19-3) earned upper-weight Outstanding Wrestler honors, but the Crimson struggled to overcome early deficits. Despite additional 3-0 performances from junior co-captain J.P. O’Connor...