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...pretty sure it was him," says Cortese, 41. "The adrenaline was pumping." After an impromptu hushed meeting with his team in the woods, Cortese and the police piled into a van and rolled slowly down the hill to the property. Revolver drawn, Cortese led the charge, busting open the plate-glass outer door. Provenzano's odyssey was over. He was going to prison for life, having been convicted in absentia on multiple counts of murder...
...ability to fully concentrate on the rigors of a Harvard education might want to think twice before casually committing to play in a fantasy baseball league. The result of such involvement will likely be a hopeless addiction that takes precedent over all else once that first pitch crosses the plate in early April, an addiction more powerful than caffeine (you’ll be up at 4 A.M. scouring free agents for a power bat to sub into your anemic infield) or narcotics (you’ve gotten high on Dodgers outfielder J.D. Drew’s monstrous home...
Harvard was sluggish at the plate and sloppy in the field at Chestnut Hill, managing only one hit and two walks off Eagles pitching while committing seven errors. The Crimson put itself in a quick hole by committing errors on three consecutive plays to start the game...
...long time coming. Shortly after Alejos’ death, a fifteen-year conflict erupted in Ayocucho between the Shining Path Maoist guerrilla insurgency and the Peruvian armed forces. After the conflict ended in 1995, Alejos’ family went back to his studio and found 100,000 glass plate negatives, 60,000 still intact. From this archive Lucia, Peruvian photographer and Alejos’ granddaughter, has begun to print the photographs in the exhibit, the most comprehensive remaining visual record of mid-century Ayacucho...
Each of the sixteen times our Spanish-speaking shortstop Niuman (pronounced New-man) Romero came to the plate in our four-game series against the Hickory (N.C.) Crawdads, the announcer said, “Now batting, Newmannnnn......Romero,” and then followed it with the quirky theme music from Seinfeld. A few times they even played a sound bite of Jerry saying, “Hello Newman...