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DIED. Johnny Sain, 89, right-handed pitcher for the Boston Braves immortalized in a rhyme turned national catchphrase; in Downers Grove, Ill. Sain, the last pitcher to face Babe Ruth, and Braves left-hander Warren Spahn were deemed so crucial to the team's successful campaign for the 1948 National League pennant that a lyric was born: "Spahn and Sain, pray for rain." Sain later became a visionary teacher, stressing the mental side of pitching and inspiring accolades from players like Jim Bouton, who dubbed him "the greatest pitching coach who ever lived...
...last resort, if you’re still feeling down about the weekend’s events, do as Princetonians would do: act like children. After all, it’s a well-known children’s rhyme that always helps me keep things in perspective: “First is the worst, second is the best, third is the one with the treasure chest...
Another firm boasted in its advertisements in this newspaper about how it “put a poet in charge of designing an automated trading block.” I can see Emily Dickinson scrawling slant rhyme over a life of corporate drudgery now—I had never entertained the thought / of running Lehman’s automated trading block...
...worded missives. In the meantime, someone has to figure this out: Is it Minuteman or Minutemen? (Or, perhaps, Two-Pump Chump?) The groups's official name is the Minuteman Project, singular, but their troops are collectively known as the Minutemen, plural. The Spec has used both, with no clear rhyme or reason, and it's time to standardize for the sake of style mavens everywhere...
...promoted as a concert, the band—sporting an array of motorcycle jackets, floppy hats, and sunglasses—continued to delight with a short 10-song set. Like their attire, the Ladies’ set list was eclectic, ranging from the newly-released Bush-bashing rhyme “Fun and Games” to the accordion-driven classic “If I Had A Million Dollars.” The band displayed its humorous bent, improvising a nonsensical song in the middle of discussion with the moderator, Tracy E. Nowski ’07, and playing...