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...seen a handful of Harvard standouts drafted into the professional ranks—the most successful being Frank Hermann ’06, who in just his third season in the minors was promoted to Cleveland’s AAA affiliate in Buffalo in July. Hermann saw his velocity rise by a few miles per hour after college, and Walsh suggests that the same thing could happen to Haviland with the transfer to warmer weather. If his one-time ace is going to ascend the ranks, though, he’ll live and die with his curveball...
...Renaissance poetry, said that Engdahl’s statement misses the fact that literature must grow out of the community in which it is written. “All literature, like wine, is local,” he said. “Local conditions provide the ingredients that give rise to literature. Literature realizes the universal when the local is combined with universal experience. “Europeans live in very close proximity to other countries, and Americans do not,” Teskey also said. “Many Europeans travel to other countries and speak other languages, whereas...
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...There's a palpable sense of urgency at the construction site, where a line of high-rise buildings - offices and residences - is taking form along the aquamarine waters of the Red Sea. Dozens of businesses have signed up to set up shop in KAEC (pronounced "cake") and the first 1,500 housing units sold out in a matter of days. The first business tenants will move in early in 2009, the first residents soon thereafter. The first school is meant to open by the end of next year, which will allow families to move...