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...terrifying news for baseball purists, who for years have griped that the DH rule, which was instituted in 1973 to spark sagging American League offenses, takes much of the strategy out of the national pastime. The usual complaint has been that with the DH, managers didn't have to pick pinch hitters, or pull off slick double switches. For years it was the home of all-or-nothing strikeout kings too bulky to play the field - think Greg "The Bull" Luzinski, the DH for the Chicago White Sox in the early 1980s, or Reggie Jackson late in his career...
...people fighting.” On the eve of the final day of the drive, Motley estimated that the program had raised “a couple hundred dollars” in monetary donations. The drive also received some in-kind donations, which Motley said he expects to pick up as the program concludes. “I have to say I’m kind of disappointed with what we have yielded,” Rivera said. “I think we went into this thinking it was going to be entirely fruitful, and I would walk home...
...listening to the radio and the music played by his older brother Charlie, who started playing professionally at age 14. “Eventually my father made it with my family and opened up a luncheonette and we made it play mambo, and I was the one who would pick the records for the jukebox. I was the soda jerk and that was the hippest jukebox in the world,” recalled Palmieri. Palmieri hoped that his residency would offer the students he worked with in the Jazz Band a memorable experience. “These young...
...couch nor the paralyzing blow to the neck as he hit the wooden armrest. More and more, Chase can do the kinds of things any other 4-year-old can do. He can walk, albeit with the aid of trekking poles. He can hold a cup and pick up an M&M. He's regained at least some sensation...
...taking of pictures under his desk--will now force colleges around the country to draw a firmer line between what is acceptable behavior in a creative setting and what is dangerous. Even Facebook ramblings, not to mention poetry-class offerings, may soon trigger an automatic response by schools to pick up the lost souls that dot every campus and keep them at safe distance from their peers. But that tension between preserving the free spirit and openness of an academic community and protecting students from real dangers may take years to sort...