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...string runs together at crucial times.“We’re not the kind of team that can sit back and wait for those home runs to happen,” Vance said. “We need to focus on getting our bunts down and moving runners. We hit a couple out this weekend, but that’s not going win us ball games.”LAFAYETTE 13, HARVARD 2In the second contest of a twinbill with Lafayette, the Crimson pitching staff was knocked around in a convincing rout.Sophomore Dan Zailskas got the starting...
...needs an experienced Administration. However, the President's job is to form his executive team, then lead and inspire it as well as the nation. So the value of leadership skills outweighs that of experience. Given that Obama has managed to go from underfinanced outsider to the Democrats' front runner and leading fund-raiser, he evidently knows how to put together a great team and make it perform. That he has achieved that as a black man with a rather difficult surname suggests he can also overcome obstacles. Robert James-Herbert, Ruse, New South Wales...
...Obama's win - his second in four days - came at the end of a day of cross-campaign finger-pointing following comments by the party's 1984 vice presidential nominee, Geraldine Ferraro, a Clinton supporter who suggested that Obama's front-runner status owed more to his race than his talent or effort. Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod accused the Clinton campaign of quietly countenancing such divisive comments; later in the day, Hillary Clinton called Ferraro's comments "regrettable." Obama called Ferraro's remarks "absurd...
...world's second-largest economy, Japan's leadership yesterday named its choice for a new central bank chief: Toshiro Muto, currently deputy governor of the Bank of Japan. The nomination by Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda surprised no one-Muto for months has been considered the front runner for the post-but it's still far from certain that he'll get the job as governor of the Bank of Japan...
...financed by Participant Productions, founded in 2004 on a "double bottom line" premise. "We want to make a social return and a commercial return on our investment," says Participant president Ricky Strauss. The production company has backed 39 other movies, both documentaries and features, including Syriana and The Kite Runner, and has more than 20 films in development. All its movies have social-action campaigns: Participant encourages audiences to visit its website takepart.com and register to vote, contact Congress or urge divestment from Sudan. About 2.7 million people have gone to the activism section of the site...