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Burly relief pitcher Rod Beck, a three-time All-Star with 286 saves in his career, will be remembered for his menacing sliders, 90-m.p.h. fastballs and career-best 51 saves for the Chicago Cubs in 1998. But the blue-collar "Shooter" will also take his place in history for his 2003 stint with the Cubs' Triple-A Iowa team. Though depressed and struggling to get back to the majors after elbow surgery, the colorful closer lived in his RV outside the team's Des Moines stadium, regularly opening his home to players and fans for post-game parties. Beck...
...that students should not have any free-speech rights in school. In the good old days, he writes, "teachers taught, and students listened. Teachers commanded, and students obeyed. Teachers did not rely solely on the power of ideas to persuade; they relied on discipline to maintain order." Spare the rod, he concludes, and spoil that little dickens Joseph Frederick...
...blogworthy. Same goes for students who inject themselves into the public arena. When a Columbia student and Marine reservist started debating campus military recruiting on FOX News, for example, he became fair game; when it emerged in March that he’d acted under the nom de porn Rod Majors in such films as “Glory Holes of Fame 3” and “Touched by an Anal,” fairer...
...RECORDS 8,848 Altitude, in meters, at which the world's highest mobile phone call was made, on May 21, by climber Rod Baber from the summit of Mount Everest -30 Temperature, in degrees Celsius, when Baber made the call. The phone's batteries were taped to his body to ensure they would stay warm enough to work...
...other service providers, such as the Chicago-based advocacy group United Power for Action & Justice, to keep the city from shuttering or cutting funding to shelters. The coalition is so worried that Daley's plan would cut aid that it is currently trying to work with Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich to squeeze $100 million out of an already tight state budget...