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...exactly what the lobbyists are doing, and Blackwill and Bayh won't give details about their work. But according to their Foreign Agents Registration Act reports, which must be filed with the U.S. Justice Department, the lobbyists had been buttonholing senior Bush Administration officials since last autumn to pitch the deal. They also arranged meetings for Indian diplomats with key figures on Capitol Hill, such as House International Relations Committee chairman Henry Hyde and Joseph Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Bayh told TIME, "We may be able to open some doors and begin an educational...
...while the rest of the band exited the stage. The blue glow that cast across the audience from dozens of cell phones was a fitting post-millennial substitute for the yellow-orange flicker of lighters of the bygone 1990s. Yet soon enough, emotions pushed to fever pitch with the performance of “Ize of the World,” one of the strongest tracks from the new album. The guitarists unleashed, twisting and jumping as Casablancas nailed the impossibly high vocal line.The audience, comprised of both long-time and new fans, was uniformly ecstatic throughout the show.Brandon Jernigan...
...Walsh traces a big question mark in the air with his forefinger.He then pauses, before repeating the exercise and drawing an invisible exclamation point.“You could throw either one of those on there,” he says.Walsh, with his grammatical pantomimes, is referring to the pitching staff of this year’s Harvard baseball team, a unit loaded with uncertainties but possessing immeasurable potential.The rotation is hampered by the loss of two key, experienced starters from a season ago. Mike Morgalis graduated and Frank Herrmann chose to forego his senior season to sign a professional...
...Salsgiver says.But at Michigan’s top-ranked Davison High School, he did everything. And Harvard head coach Joe Walsh noticed.Besides captaining the hockey and football teams, Salsgiver—also a first-team “character,” according to Walsh—frequently pitched the first game of doubleheaders before suiting up at shortstop in the second, and often came out of the bullpen to close out the nightcap.He set 15 different school records, both as a hurler and at the plate, where he set marks for home runs and hit almost...
Mixing experience with youth will be key for the pitching staff this spring. Last season the team finished with a 3.75 ERA, just ten complete games to its opponents’ 26, and teams hit for a .281 average against the young staff. Many of the squad’s woes came as a result of injuries, an issue that led to two freshman starting 23 out of the team’s 38 games. “What’s good for us this year is that we have two sophomores that did a lot of starting last...