Word: randolph
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Growing up, I tried to be a humble Yankees fan, preferring the yeoman efforts of Willie Randolph to the braggadocio of Reggie Jackson. I had a terrific vocabulary as a kid. The Yankees gave me confidence that I sorely needed as a bookish, freakishly shy child who was secretly desired by all the girls in his class...
...wish I could be a Yankee fan. I gave it up years ago, toward the end of the Reggie Jackson era. It was a great team then - Jackson, Winfield and the rest. I loved to watch Willie Randolph - slick, perfect, self-contained - at second. But there was the intolerable Steinbrenner, and you paid a price in the stands. A drunk always showered beer on you from the second deck and games with the Boston Red Sox would degenerate into tribal brawls after the sixth inning, when everyone had had enough suds to be a real moron...
...everyone is confident that the new hours represent the best way to secure that level of visibility. While acknowledging the difficulty in getting students to fill the 2 to 4 a.m. shifts, 1998 SafetyWalk Director Randolph Bell '00 worried that the time change will actually decrease the number of students who rely upon the service...
...decision sends the Microsoft case to the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia circuit and into what will likely be a more Microsoft-friendly courtroom. Two of the seven judges who will hear the appeal, Stephen F. Williams and A. Raymond Randolph, ruled in favor of Microsoft in a related appeal two years ago. Moreover, by removing the immediate threat of a final ruling, the decision gives Microsoft a stronger bargaining position in any settlement negotiations with the government. The decision, however, does not offer similar benefits to the Justice Department or to the American people. An extended...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to a university president who had been accused by William Randolph Hearst's newspapers of harboring communists: "I sometimes think that Hearst has done more to harm Democracy and civilization in America than any three other contemporaries put together...