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...Robs, senior Rob Wheeler and sophomore Rob Nelson, look to be competing for serious playing time this season. “Those guys have shown me remarkable improvement at the plate,” Walsh said. “Right now, those are two guys that have, ‘Play me, play me, play me,’ on the backs of their shirts.”….There will be a few new, noticeable additions to O’Donnell Field this year. There will be brand-new dugouts, and now, a permanent locker room...
Smyser's three young sons knew Rader, who often collected the church offering, as "the man with the money plate." He helped kids gather their crayons before worship started and chatted with them about school. Convivial, if not very gregarious, he liked to hear other members' fishing stories. In almost every way, Rader seemed to live by the book. He was persnickety, but this had its upside. As an installation manager at the ADT alarm company in the 1980s, Rader drew incredibly intricate, accurate layouts of security systems and homes--not unlike the crime-scene diagrams sketched...
...Washington is a plate full of highly intelligent, artless, tactless, and harsh people,” says James S. Traub ’76, who wrote a 2003 cover story on Summers for the New York Times Magazine. “It is true that even there, diplomatic skills get you to the top. But it’s also a world of people who are really abrasive...
...action. He doesn't trust a lot of talk. That's one of the reasons he gets irritated by French President Jacques Chirac. (Administration aides like to joke that at state dinners, the French President can't stop lecturing long enough to eat any of the food on his plate.) But when Air Force One landed in Brussels for the start of his first foreign trip since winning re-election, the man of action gave himself over to the art of conversation. "You might call this a listening tour," he said during a press conference with nato Secretary-General Jaap...
...your restaurant [Teany, in New York City] doing? It's actually worked out really well. What we've learned is that whenever I suggest something, it ends up being disastrous. Like this fantastic Middle Eastern plate that I designed--one of our first customers, Susan Sarandon, loved it. I think she almost licked her plate. But it was so expensive to produce, we basically lost $2 every time we sold one. The only labor I'm qualified for at the restaurant is busing tables...