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High in the Memorial Church bell tower, danger lurks. Or at least danger could lurk. That’s why one intrepid FM reporter and his trusty escort, occasional bell ringer and Harvard Planning and Real Estate employee Richard D. Campbell, suit up in safety harnesses and hard hats to climb the half a dozen ladders and scramble across the catwalk to reach the tower...
...like him,” Buckley says of Sheffield. “He looked like him, had the right kind of trot, good smile, seemed the right kind of guy. He sort of looked like an old -timer. Then we put the uniform on and he was a dead ringer...
...Wall Street's recent plunges, who would want to ring the opening or closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange? Everyone, it turns out. Especially since Sept. 11, as heads of state and celebs troop to ground zero and want to stop by, requests to be a bell ringer are up. The N.Y.S.E.'s Bob Zito, who filters the requests, says the first five months of 2002 are almost booked. As a courtesy, Zito will call the volunteers on a bad market day to let them bow out, rather than be publicly tarred with a bearish brush. (President Clinton...
ROLANDO PAULINO Diamonds not forever: Bronx Little League chief banned for life for playing 14-year-old ringer...
...Like a modern Israelite tribe, the team leads a rootless, marginal life - eating at Joe's restaurant, but in the back, and sleeping on the bus. They survive on their faith in baseball. After several bad breaks, Noah gets persuaded to try a gimmick. They put a ringer from the Negro League in a costume and introduce him as the Golem of Jewish legend. Fishkin, the team's pinch-hitter, explains the legend: "a golem is a creature that man creates to be a companion, a protector or a servant. But only God can grant a creature a soul...