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...hard-throwing 10-year-old growing up in Orlando, Florida, Dot Richardson wanted to play Little League baseball. But a coach said she'd have to cut her hair first and call herself Bob. Dot passed up that invitation and opted for girls' softball instead. Two decades and a gold medal later, she notes that things have improved for sports-minded girls. "You can see the change in women's athletics," she says. "Young girls today have more opportunities than I ever...
...Richardson had her opportunity in the third inning of the gold-medal game between the U.S. and China. With a runner on first in a scoreless game, she lifted a fly ball deep down the right-field line. As it sailed toward the foul pole, the exuberant 5-ft. 5-in. shortstop crouched low on the base path (so the home-plate umpire could see better, she later explained), then leaped in the air as the ball was ruled fair. The Chinese team disputed the call for 10 minutes, to no avail, and the homer provided the winning...
...Richardson identifies two major kinds of terrorist activity. Many terrorists, she says, belong to specific movements that try to advance particular political objectives and have fairly predictable targets...
...Without intelligence, it is incredibly difficult to tell where they will strike," Richardson says. "As to if Harvard is likely to be targeted, it is impossible...
...Richardson says universities as such have not been the targets of the second type of terrorist, but intellectuals and academics have been the victims of terrorist movements as a part of broader political conflicts...