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Hardball guru and Baseball Tonight analyst Peter Gammons appeared at the Kennedy School of Government last night to discuss the role of baseball in American society. Harvard second baseman Faiz Shakir had the honor of introducing Gammons at the start of the event, which was sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Gammons’ talk addressed some of the game’s more beleaguered stars, including one who Shakir knows quite well—maligned Cardinals southpaw Rick Ankiel...
...those rejecting the rat race to spend more time with their families, perhaps the most famous is Peter Lynch. While the 47-year-old investment superstar was busy building the Fidelity Magellan mutual fund into a $13 billion behemoth, his youngest daughter got to be seven years old, and he felt he hardly knew her. Last spring he stunned Wall Street when he decided to give up his 14-hour workdays. With a nest egg estimated at $50 million, Lynch could well afford to quit. But many ordinary people evidently felt a connection with what he did, for he received...
...Peter J. Gomes, the minister of Memorial Church and plummer professor of Christian morals, will participate in a workshop about homosexuality and Christianity...
...Peter said that when Fan's wife did not receive the job he returned to Loker and said that gifts were only for people who helped each other...
Bullying is often performance art. Peter Fonagy, a psychologist who helped develop an antibullying model popular in Topeka, Kans., schools, believes that bullies and their victims usually make up no more than 10% to 20% of any school population. "The whole drama is supported by the bystander," says Fonagy. "The theater can't take place if there's no audience." Seeds University Elementary School in Los Angeles uses "equity guidelines" to target both bullies and bystanders. Parents and students sign contracts at the beginning of the year stipulating that no child may be put down for academic performance, appearance, family...