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...Lincoln, MA * Erika Elmuts Jr. Carlisle, MA * Samantha Ettus So. New York, NY * Kim Cooper Sr. Roslyn, NY #5 Eliza Parker So. Dover-Foxcroft, ME #6 Agata Passent Fr. Cambridge, MA #7 Kendra Harris Fr. Ventura, CA #8 Katie Hatch Fr. Billings, MT * Elmuts, Ettus and Cooper will platoon at two, three and four...
Junior Phil Andriola and sophomore David Morgan will platoon behind the plate. Andriola caught 30 games last year with a 97 fielding percentage, throwing out 18 of 47 runners and committing only five errors...
Oliver Stone screams bloody murder for a living. In his screenplays for Midnight Express and Scarface, he drew nightscapes of drug paranoia and police brutality. As writer-director of Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, the Vietnam vet exorcised his demons by portraying the war as a rite of passage -- to fratricide. In Talk Radio he suggested that the penalty for a showman's reckless truth telling was to be killed by his audience. Jim Morrison, in The Doors, pays a similar fee for fame; the poet's capricious muse drives him to drugs, madness, death. Oddly enough...
...Czech village of Solotvino, he lost his parents and four siblings at Auschwitz. Having left for Budapest in 1939, he arrived in France early the following year and sailed to Liverpool a few months later. He won Britain's Military Cross in January 1945 for leading a platoon against a German defensive position. In London after the war, he launched Pergamon Press, a scientific publisher. In 1969 Maxwell lost the company in a scandal: he was charged with misrepresenting Pergamon's financial condition during a takeover battle. He recaptured the firm in 1974 and last March sold...
...troops. (Nyhan really loves this story. So does everyone else. You'll hear it about a thousand times over the next 13 months.) He got a Congressional Medal of Honor for it, but he initially turned it down. No kidding. He accepted it later on behalf of his platoon...