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Lazarre-White, the superior runner among the Harvard QB candidates, gets the nod this week because Restic wants his offense to increase its time of possession...
...suprisingly, the mood in the runner-up's headquarters was considerably more subdued, even if a few of the same themes were sounded...
...most -- except for civility, of which it has the least. With a flood of new arrivals from Europe, the Soviet Union and the Third World, New York's population has rebounded from its 1980 low of 7 million to an estimated 8 million, more than twice as many as runner-up Los Angeles. Washington may be the home of Congress and the President, but New York is the financial capital of the world. Even with the rise of Japan and Germany, the New York Stock Exchange remains the world's most prestigious financial market, on which stocks worth trillions...
...Well, I was into physics in high school. You might have even heard of me. I was the Nebraska state physics runner-up last year...
...image is worth savoring. A pick-off can be a thing of beauty: the pitcher leans in toward home plate, spies the base runner overreaching himself, then suddenly wheels and fires to first to nab him by half a step. Artful misdirection plus exact timing equals a dramatic out; Vincent understands that baseball equation. For never in the game's history has there been a pick-off move as adroit and emotionally satisfying as the one the commissioner executed last week when he threw George Steinbrenner out as the principal owner of the Yankees...