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Smith earned a reputation both for bringing home the groceries and brooking no nonsense from settlers who wouldn't pull their weight or who put self-interest above the colony's needs. He made an enemy or two along the way. As the military man who understood the terrain and was the least likely to be missed if he didn't return, Smith was put in charge of seeking local tribes willing to swap corn, fish and game for English copper and glass beads. When one hard-pressed tribe balked at the corn-for-copper trade, Smith ordered...
Even worse, the fledgling democrats cannot seem to pull themselves together. Yeltsin last week urged the splintered, squabbling opposition factions to form a single, pro-democracy party. But Yuri Afanasyev, a leader of the liberal Inter-Regional Group of Deputies in the Parliament, opposed the idea. Putting everyone into the same party, he argued, was a Bolshevik approach. "It is better for us to agree on something fundamental," he said, "rather than join something anonymous and faceless...
...have it today.” Harvard finally broke through against Brown starter James Cramphin in the late innings. Through six frames, Cramphin had struck out 10—he finished with 12 strikeouts—and permitted just a single run. But sophomore Matt Rogers pulled the Crimson within one with a two-run homer in the top of the seventh, and Vance gave the team the lead with a two-run double later in the inning. Vance drove in another pair of runs off a tired Cramphin in the top of the eighth with a single to center...
...Fluid enough to have a .732 slugging percentage to go along with a solid .323 batting average, showing that the extra time off paired with superb coaching led to a skyrocketing improvement on offense.“We always knew that she was good—that she would pull through for us in opportune moments,” captain second baseman Julia Kidder said. “Obviously we didn’t expect what she’s done this season thus far.”And while most people will only see her hitting statistics?...
...required to put him atop the tank that day in 1991. At the very moment of his 1931 baptism in the remote Ural Mountains village of Butko, some 900 miles east of Moscow, a tippling priest carelessly dropped him in a baptismal font and was too inebriated to pull him out. His parents had to rescue him. "It means," the priest murmured, "that he is a good, tough lad." That was a necessity for survival in western Siberia during that era of Soviet history. Yeltsin recalled that during the bitterly cold winters he and his family in their communal...